APSY3233 · Education

Motivation, Emotion, and Self-Regulated Learning

Lynch School of Education & Human Development

Self-regulated learning is a process that involves setting learning and academic goals, monitoring your progress toward these goals, and making adjustments when you realize that you are not on track to be successful. The course will primarily focus on the ways that motivation and emotion contribute to this process. For example, students will examine the motivations that lead individuals to adopt particular achievement goals (e.g., the goal of getting a good grade), the ways in which these goals impact learners behaviors, and the impact of these behaviors on important outcomes (e.g., grades and well-being). Students in the course will also examine different types of emotions (e.g.,curiosity, boredom, frustration, etc.) that learners experience when pursuing their academic goals and the ways in which these emotions can support or hinder their achievement of these goals. In addition to examining motivation and emotion as factors shape learners' achievement and self-regulation, the course will explore some of the ways in which motivation and emotion can themselves be regulated. For example, students will learn about the kinds of strategies that individuals use to bolster their motivation when they feel like quitting or to calm themselves down when they are feeling anxious. Although the course will explore some of the ways that motivation, emotion, and self-regulation develop, its main focuswill be on how adolescents and young adults pursue their learning goals.