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New Directions in Motivation Regulation: The Role of Students’ Metamotivational Beliefs

Mon, April 16, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Millennium Broadway New York Times Square, Floor: Fifth Floor, Room 5.08

Session Type: Symposium

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Students cannot always rely on their parents or teachers to make sure they are motivated to engage in academic tasks in an effective manner. Thus, it is important that we develop a better understanding of how students can successfully regulate their own motivational states. The symposium brings together a group of investigators conducting cutting-edge research on an important, but understudied, aspect of motivation regulation: students’ metamotivational beliefs. Moving beyond simple beliefs, such as “more motivation means better performance,” these investigators have begun to explore students’ more nuanced beliefs about how different types of motivational states (e.g., intrinsic vs. extrinsic) affect their performance on different kinds of tasks, as well as how these types of motivation relate to each other.

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