Considerable research demonstrates that student and teacher motivational beliefs and strategies can influence student learning and performance. Research also indicates that changes in these beliefs can precede or even occur in the absence of changes in student performance. Accordingly, the effectiveness of instructional interventions may not be fully recognized when motivation related outcomes are not assessed.
Our role as a partner in this initiative is to develop and make available improved tools that MSPs can use to monitor the effectiveness of instructional and curricular interventions with respect to student and teacher motivation. These include measures of motivational beliefs (e.g., achievement goals, self-efficacy, value), affect, strategies for self-regulated learning, and epistemic beliefs about math and science. MSP-MAP also offers technical assistance to help MSPs design and implement professional development activities and programs to facilitate teaching practices that engender more adaptive student motivation.
The Principal Investigator of MSP Motivation Assessment Program is Stuart Karabenick.
More information can be
found on a separate web site created by this project: http:// www.mspmap.org.
This site was created to enhance communication and collaboration
between partners within the MSP-MAP
project as well as to inform the public of the efforts of the Math
and Science Partnership Program. While selected documents in the
library and resources sections have been made available
to the public, only logged in members of the
MSP Motivation Assessment Program project can post comments,
participate or read posts in the Working Groups, or see the interactive
Calendar.
