About four days ago a new issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology was published (volume 100, number 4). As a student in the L&I doctoral program you always want to check out new issues of JEP (this really should be a habit you practice every three months).
The new issue, like many issues before it, contains a mix of articles about cognition and motivation as it relates to learning. The new issue contains 6 motivation-centric articles. I suggest checking out all of the articles to identify ones of interest to you.
One article in particular, seems to have widespread appeal and is titled, "Supporting students' motivation, engagement, and learning during an uninteresting activity." The author, Hyungshim Jang, combines self-determination theory with interest theory. But the most interesting aspect of his study is how he manipulates using a rationale (in written form) before students begin engaging in an uninteresting activity. Perhaps just as important for some of you: there's very clear next steps that need to be taken based on this study (i.e. he gift wraps a future dissertation).
Check out all of the motivation-related articles:
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