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Achievement Motivation

Recent Trends in Theory and Research

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  1. Leslie J. Fyans

    1. Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield, USA

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Achievement Motivation: Trends in Theory and Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Leslie J. Fyans Jr.
      Pages 3-5

  3. Achievement Motivation Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Motivational Effects in So-Called Tests of Ability and Educational Achievement

      • John W. Atkinson
      Pages 9-21

    3. The Origins of Competence and Achievement Motivation in Personal Causation

      • Richard deCharms
      Pages 22-33

    4. Motivation, Evaluation, and Educational Testing Policy

      • Kennedy T. Hill
      Pages 34-95

    5. Effects of Failure: Alternative Explanations and Possible Implications

      • Margaret M. Clifford
      Pages 96-113

    6. Motivation and Educational Productivity: Theories, Results, and Implications

      • Herbert J. Walberg, Margaret Uguroglu
      Pages 114-134

    7. A Model of Direct and Relational Achieving Styles

      • Jean Lipman-Blumen, Harold J. Leavitt, Kerry J. Patterson, Robert J. Bies, Alice Handley-Isaksen
      Pages 135-168

  4. Achievement Motivation and Life Span Human Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. The Graying of America: Implications for Achievement Motivation Theory and Research

      • Martin L. Maehr, Douglas A. Kleiber
      Pages 171-189

    3. Motivational Determinants of Adult Personality Functioning and Aging

      • Joel O. Raynor
      Pages 190-224

    4. A Developmental Perspective on Theories of Achievement Motivation

      • Diane N. Ruble
      Pages 225-245

  6. Sex Differences in Achievement Motivation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 347-347
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About this book

This book started as a symposium on Achievement Motiva­ tion at the 1978 American Educational Research Association Convention. The participants in that symposium were Jack Atkinson, Martin Maehr, Dick De Charms, Joel Raynor, and Dave Hunt. The subsequent response to that symposium indicated a "coming of age" for motivation theory in terms of education. Soon afterward, at a Motivation in Education Conference at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, it became apparent that due to this emergence of motivation what was needed was a comprehensive perspective as to the state of the art of achievement theory. Achievement theory had by now well surpassed its beginnings in the 1950s and 1960s and was ready for a composite presentation and profile of the recent research and theories of motivation. Thus, this volume was born. I would like to take this opportunity to thank each contribu­ tor to this book as well as Robert L. Linn who critically reviewed several of the manuscripts. Thanks are also due to my former graduate advisors, Martin L. Maehr, Maurice Tatsuoka, and Harry Triandis, for the viewpoints given me in graduate school education which I hope have benefitted this under­ taking. Joyce Fitch did a splendid joh typing many of these chapters and special gratitude should be given to Judy Cadle of Professional Services, Inc. for the composition and proofing of this book.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield, USA

    Leslie J. Fyans

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Achievement Motivation

  • Book Subtitle: Recent Trends in Theory and Research

  • Editors: Leslie J. Fyans

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-8997-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1980

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-40549-5Published: 01 August 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-8999-7Published: 29 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-8997-3Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 472

  • Topics: Popular Science in Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, general

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