Expectancy-value theory & preschool parental involvement in informal STEM learning

Expectancy Value Theory: Motivating Healthcare Workers

Vroom’s expectancy theory provides a process of cognitive variables that reflects individual differences in work motivation. In this model, employees are rational people whose beliefs, perceptions, and probability estimates influence their behaviors. From a management perspective, the expectancy theory has some important implications for motivating employees in healthcare setting. It identifies...

Expectancy-Value Theory of Achievement Motivation.

We discuss the expectancy-value theory of motivation, focusing on an expectancy-value model developed and researched by Eccles, Wigfield, and their colleagues. Definitions of crucial constructs in the model, including ability beliefs, expectancies for success, and the components of subjective task values, are provided. These definitions are compared to those of related constructs, including sel...

Theoretical perspectives: Eccles’ expectancy-value theory

The Gaming Involvement and Informal Learning framework

This article presents a model of how gaming involvement and informal learning come together in practice. Based on a series of interviews, case studies and a wider survey, the Gaming Involvement and Informal Learning (GIIL) framework indicates how involvement with a variety of gaming practices can lead to a range of different learning experiences. The framework is able to account for both how an...

Expectancy-Value Theory of Achievement Motivation: A Developmental Perspective

I consider Eccles et al.'s (1983) expectancy-value model of achievement performance and choice from a developmental perspective, by examining how recent research on the development of young children's competence beliefs, expectancies for success, subjective task values, and achievement goals can be incorporated into the model The kinds of change in children's achievement beliefs considered incl...