Motivation, Emotion, and Self-Regulated Learning (APSY 3233)

Education · Boston College

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

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