Book Review: Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning: Theory, Research, and Applications by Edited by Dale H. Schunk and Barry J. Zimmerman (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008)

Excerpt: Understanding self-regulated learning is essential in today’s academic and social world, and this handbook is a keeper for developers, faculty, and students. As learning moves through its various levels and depths, relevance is essential. Though teachers are trained in content, many are not supported in the dynamics of how to help students move toward the intrinsic or self-regulated end of the motivational continuum. Because it is...