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Journal of Student Wellbeing is a peer reviewed e-journal which publishes applied and theoretical papers on students' social, emotional, mental, and spiritual wellbeing. It focuses on the promotion of child and adolescent wellbeing in educational settings.
The journal aims to cater for a wide audience with an interest in:
Who uses textbooks? Do students actually read the text? A study in Teaching Educational Psychology by Derryberry & Wininger looked at the relationship between student motivation and textbook selection and use.
The authors combine a group of measures to create a group of “internal motivation” measures, including need for cognition (enjoying effortful thinking), mastery goal orientation (focus on increasing competence), and intrinsic motivation. Similarly, a separate group of measures was combined to create a measure of “external motivation”: performance goal orientation (focus on judgments of others) and external regulation. Finally, they also had an “amotivation” scale measured level of motivation. Most previous research on motivation suggests that those with internal motivation are more likely to engage in deeper processing of materal and have higher degrees of self-regulation.
Derryberry, W. P., & Wininger, S. R. (2008). Relationships among textbook usage and cognitive-motivational constructs Teaching Educational Psychology, 3 (2), 1-11(spotted on Researchblogging with links to the Connections Research Blog)
A new open access journal, Journal of Instructional Pedagogies publishes covers contemporary instructional techniques and education issues in higher education. Educational topics related to delivery methods, implementation of classroom technologies, distance learning, class activities and assessment are typical topics.
Published by the Academic and Business Research Institute.