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What is our Focus?

Substantive and methodological issues related to motivation, emotion, and learning. Areas include but are not limited to:

self-concept
self-efficacy
interest & engagement
goal theory
attribution theory
anxiety
cooperative & collaborative learning
situated cognition
metacognition
self-regulation
conceptual change
problem solving
creativity
critical thinking


Researchers use a range of research methodologies –

quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods