Papers by Judith Harackiewicz
The Effects of Competition and Cooperation on Intrinsic Motivation: A Field Study
PsycEXTRA Dataset, 1999
Intrinsic Motivation, Extrinsic Rewards, and Divergent Views of Reality
The long-standing debate over whether extrinsic rewards undermine intrinsic motivation and the mo... more The long-standing debate over whether extrinsic rewards undermine intrinsic motivation and the more recent debate regarding the costs and benefits of performance goals are central issues addressed in Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: The Search for Optimal Motivation and Performance, edited by Carol Sansone and Judith Harackiewicz. The book contains chap ters from a number of the most prominent scholars in the field and is an excellent volume despite the absence of a chapter representing the behav iorist tradition. This book review contains a summary of the debates and a description of three tensions that recur throughout the book: The empirical tension, the macrovs. micro-analysis tension, and the idealism vs. realism tension.
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings
Katie just recently finished her postdoc ASU and is currently working as temporary faculty in the... more Katie just recently finished her postdoc ASU and is currently working as temporary faculty in the college of engineering at Rowan University. Her research interests include complexity learning, cognition, and motivation.
The Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
A growing body of research suggests that utility-value interventions can promote students' academ... more A growing body of research suggests that utility-value interventions can promote students' academic motivation and achievement. Moreover, there is evidence that minimal interventions are particularly useful for ethnic minority and first-generation students at college. Whether this is also the case with high school students belonging to minorities and having low parental educational background, is unclear. In a double-blind randomized field experiment with N ¼ 439 academic-track students from 9th grade in Germany, we investigated whether a short version of an established utilityvalue intervention (i.e., quotations evaluation intervention) would promote the students' utility, attainment, and intrinsic values in math and their math test performance after the intervention. Moreover, we investigated if such short-term intervention effects were moderated by students' migration background and parental educational background. We found significant positive main effects of the intervention on the students' utility and attainment values in math compared to a control group. The effect on attainment value was especially pronounced for students with migration background whose parents held no university entrance certificate. We discuss the practical relevance of these findings and highlight challenges for future research in this field. KEYWORDS Expectancy-value theory; task value; intervention; mathematics; migration background; parental educational background STUDENTS WHO FIND math interesting, important, and useful achieve better in this domain on average and are more likely to choose advanced math courses and math-intensive careers than students who value math less (see expectancy-value theory, Eccles et al., 1983; Wigfield et al., 2016). This is also true when accounting for the students' current math achievement, cognitive abilities, gender, and family background (e.g.,
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
SignificanceScience is rapidly changing with the current movement to improve science focused larg... more SignificanceScience is rapidly changing with the current movement to improve science focused largely on reproducibility/replicability and open science practices. Through network modeling and semantic analysis, this article provides an initial exploration of the structure, cultural frames of collaboration and prosociality, and representation of women in the open science and reproducibility literatures. Network analyses reveal that the open science and reproducibility literatures are emerging relatively independently with few common papers or authors. Open science has a more collaborative structure and includes more explicit language reflecting communality and prosociality than does reproducibility. Finally, women publish more frequently in high-status author positions within open science compared with reproducibility. Implications for cultivating a diverse, collaborative culture of science are discussed.
Learning and Instruction, 2019
Utility-value (UV) writing interventions help students find the personal relevance of course mate... more Utility-value (UV) writing interventions help students find the personal relevance of course material to promote interest and performance. However, little is known about how best to frame the intervention, particularly in the 2-year college context where students have more varied backgrounds than the samples previously studied. Using a randomized field experiment, we tested two ways of framing a UV writing intervention (student-framed vs. instructor-framed examples of UV), against a control assignment. Contrary to previous research, we found that students struggling in the course became less interested and perceived less utility value overall in UV conditions, compared to the control. The student-framed UV intervention made the course more interesting for students who were doing well in the course, but decreased grades for students struggling in the course, compared to the instructor-framed UV intervention. We examine psychological (e.g., confidence, engagement) and cognitive (linguistic indicators of cognitive processing) variables as mechanisms.
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2017
The integration of subject matter learning with reading and writing skills takes place in multipl... more The integration of subject matter learning with reading and writing skills takes place in multiple ways. Students learn to read, interpret, and write texts in the discipline-relevant genres. However, writing can be used not only for the purposes of practice in professional communication, but also as an opportunity to reflect on the learned material. In this paper, we address a writing intervention-Utility Value (UV) intervention-that has been shown to be effective for promoting interest and retention in STEM subjects in laboratory studies and field experiments. We conduct a detailed investigation into the potential of natural language processing technology to support evaluation of such writing at scale: We devise a set of features that characterize UV writing across different genres, present common themes, and evaluate UV scoring models using essays on known and new biology topics. The automated UV scoring results are, we believe, promising, especially for the personal essay genre.
Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2015
Interest theory adopts a person-in-context perspective. In this view, a momentary experience of i... more Interest theory adopts a person-in-context perspective. In this view, a momentary experience of interest is shaped by environmental circumstances and stable personal preferences. According to the Four-Phase Model of Interest Development, environmental factors are important in defining the concept of situational interest (SI). This study investigates this assumption. Repeated measurements of SI collected from a sample of 327 high school students during problem-based learning activities were analyzed using Latent-State Trait (LST) theory. LST models allow identification of situation-specific and consistent components in repeated measurements. Results show that situation-specific effects had a strong influence on self-reported SI. Further analysis revealed that substantial variance components in SI were unconfounded with preexisting individual interest. Based on these two criteria, the findings support defining the psychological state of interest as "situational interest".
Adopting Optimal Achievement Goals in College: Does the Type of Classroom Environment Matter?
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In search of optimal challenge: Achievement goals, goal difficulty, and achievement orientation
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The interplay of achievement motives, purpose goals, and target goals: Testing the matching hypothesis
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I Can’t Explain
Most Underappreciated, 2011
Looking beyond Rewards: The Problem and Promise
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