Member Profile

PROJECT AFFILIATION:

• MSP Motivation Assessment Program
  • Roles: PI, Project Director
  • Access: Project Admin, Project Contact
• MSP - Motivation Assessment Program II (MSP-MAP II): Teacher Motivation in Professional Development
  • Roles: PI
  • Access: Project Admin, Project Contact
• TEAM-Math

PROFESSIONAL ROLES

• Researcher 

BIO

BA, Ph.D. University of Michigan in psychology 

EXPERTISE

Research Interests
Motivation and self-regulated learning, social aspects of self-regulation, academic help seeking, culture and epistemology-related beliefs

Current Projects
Help seeking in academic settings, achievement goals and learning, culture and learning, conceptual change, epistemic authority, motivation-related outcomes in math and science education, religion and motivation, effects of standardized testing on motivation 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Karabenick, S. A., & Newman, R. S. (Eds.). (2006). Help seeking in academic settings: Goals, groups and contexts. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Volet, S., & Karabenick, S. A. (2006). Help seeking in cultural context. In S. A. Karabenick & R. S. Newman (Eds.), Academic Help Seeking: Goals, Groups, and Contexts. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Maehr, M. L., & Karabenick, S. A. (Eds.). (2005). Advances in Motivation and Achievement: Motivation and Religion. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Karabenick, S. A., & Moosa, S. (2005). Culture and personal epistemology: Middle Eastern students' beliefs about scientific knowledge and knowing. Social Psychology of Education, 8, 375-393.

Wolters, C., Pintrich, P. R., & Karabenick, S. A. (2005). Measuring academic self-regulated learning. In K. A. Moore & L. Lippman (Eds.), Conceptualizing and measuring indicators of positive development: What do children need to flourish? New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press.

Karabenick, S. A. (2004). Perceived achievement goal structure and college student help seeking. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96, 569-581.

Karabenick, S. A., & Noda, P. C. (2004). Professional development implications of teachers' beliefs and attitudes toward limited English proficient students. Bilingual Research Journal. 28, 55-75.

Bembenutty, H., & Karabenick, S. A. (2004). Inherent association between academic delay of gratification, future time perspective, and self-regulated learning. Educational Psychology Review, 16(1), 35-57.

Karabenick, S. A. (2003). Seeking help in large college classes: A person centered approach. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 28, 37-58.

Moosa, S., Karabenick, S. A., & Adams, L. (2001). Teachers' perceptions of Arab parent involvement in elementary schools. School Community Journal, 11, 1-23.