Project Director:
Stuart Karabenick
Email: skaraben@umich.edu Alternate Contact:
Martin Maehr
Email:skaraben@umich.edu, Phone: 734-647-3103 Major area of Psychology in which these projects are located:
Education and Psychology Project Description:
Our research focuses on the development of tools to assess motivation-related outcomes in mathematics and science classrooms. Assessing these motivation-related constructs is important because considerable research demonstrates that students’ and teachers’ motivational beliefs and strategies can influence student learning and performance. Research also indicates that changes in these beliefs can precede or even occur in the absence of changes in cognitive outcomes. Undergraduates can be involved with many different areas of this project, depending on interest and experience. Opportunities include conducting interviews with elementary and secondary students to explore their interpretation of and response to survey items, coding data, and data management. Interested students may also take leadership roles in the processing of large amounts of survey data with our new high-speed optical scanning machines. For more information, please see our website at http://www.mspmap.org/. Time commitment requested:
10-15 hours per week Qualifications of student:
Knowledge of MS Word and Windows is required. Some experience in using SPSS is preferred, but not required.
Credit Offered:
Yes
Money:
No
Experience only:
Yes
Workstudy:
No
Submitted: 8/16/2004
For more information about
the undergraduate program please email us.
