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Enhancing Motivation in Educational Psychology.

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Cohen, Margaret W. – Teaching of Psychology, 1984

How the topic of intrinsic motivation can be used as the theoretical framework to guide an undergraduate educational psychology course within the teacher education curriculum is described. Three motivation exercises, developed using the concepts of R. deCharms, are included. A preliminary assessment of the technique showed favorable results. (RM)

Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Evaluation, Educational Psychology, Higher Education

Course Enrichment and the Job Characteristics Model.

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Catanzaro, Diane – Teaching of Psychology, 1997

Describes how the job characteristics model (J. R. Hackman), used by industrial-organizational psychologists to enhance the motivating potential of jobs in industry, can be applied to increase student motivation. The job characteristics model describes the relationship between the core characteristics of skill variety, task identity, task…

Descriptors: Course Content, Course Objectives, Education Work Relationship, Higher Education

Higher Education	2
Learning Motivation	2
Models	2
Student Motivation	2
Teaching Methods	2
Course Content	1
Course Descriptions	1
Course Evaluation	1
Course Objectives	1
Education Work Relationship	1
Educational Psychology	1
Industrial Psychology	1
Instructional Development	1
Learning Activities	1
Motivation Techniques	1
Occupational Information	1
Organizational Development	1
Skill Analysis	1
Student Attitudes	1
Task Analysis	1
Teacher Education	1
Teacher Education Curriculum	1
Teacher Influence	1
Transfer of Training	1
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