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Motivating Students part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This chapter from the book Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis is a great place to start for ideas and tips about increasing student motivation in your classes. The author presents a handy ...
Motivation: A General Overview of Theories part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This chapter in an e-book provides a brief summary of motivational theories that is written for educators. Topics include goals, self-efficacy, attribution theory, self-regulation and volition, and ...
Six C's of motivation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website describes a scenario in a geography classroom where the teacher uses instructional strategies to promote motivation amongst her students. The tactics are to give students choices in ...
Metacognition part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This page defines metacognition, describes the differences between novice and expert learners, and describes the metacognitive strategies that lead to success in learning.
Overview of Learning And Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The LASSI is a 10-scale, 80-item assessment of students' awareness about and use of learning and study strategies related to skill, will and self-regulation components of strategic learning. The ...
Metacognition: Study Strategies, Monitoring, and Motivation part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The author briefly reviews metacognition and its connections with study strategies, self-monitoring, and motivation. He then offers examples of specific strategies instructors can teach students to ...
Metacognition: An Overview part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The author reviews metacognition, metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive regulation, the distinction between cognitive and metacognitive strategies, the relationship between metacognition and ...
Transfer of learning: Issues and research agenda part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This is a report on a workshop held at NSF in 2002. It begins with a broad introduction to the transfer of knowledge, discussing why it is both central and timely to the country's educational mission ...
History of Energy in the United States: 1635-2000 part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This website, from the US Department of Energy, provides a history of energy use in the US from 1635-2000. It includes several figures showing how energy sources and consumption have changed through ...
Lines, Blobs, Crosses, and Arrows: Diagrammatic Communication with Schematic Figures part of SERC Print Resource Collection
In making diagrams to communicate, people use a small number of symbols or schematic figures. The meaning of a diagram as a whole depends in part on the schematic figures used within the diagram and ...