How Naming Your Emotions Can Increase Your Motivation in Grad School
Emotion regulation is the last motivation regulation strategy from Wolters’ (2003) article. Being aware of your emotions during learning...
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Sarah Davis
Aug 30, 20232 min
How Your Beliefs About Yourself Are Affecting Your Motivation in Grad School
Efficacy management is the penultimate strategy for motivation regulation discussed in Wolters’ (2003) article. Students’ self-efficacy,...
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Sarah Davis
Aug 23, 20232 min
Increasing Your Motivation in Grad School Through Attribution Control
Attribution control as a motivation regulation strategy from Wolters (2003), is when you attribute or assign reasons for your success or...
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Sarah Davis
Aug 16, 20232 min
How Putting Limits Around Your Work in Grad School Can Increase Your Motivation
Self-limiting is the next motivation regulation strategy from Wolters (2003). I will mention that this strategy is called something else,...
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Sarah Davis
Aug 9, 20232 min
How To Create A Productive Work Environment in Grad School
Environmental structuring is one of the most rewarding strategies to use to regulate motivation in grad school. Environmental structuring...
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Sarah Davis
Aug 2, 20232 min
How to Increase your Interest in Grad School
Interest enhancement is the next motivation regulation strategy discussed in Wolters (2003). Interest enhancement is when students use...
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Sarah Davis
Jul 26, 20231 min
Can Talking to Yourself Increase your Motivation in Grad School?
Goal-oriented self-talk is next in the series on motivation regulation strategies for graduate students. You’ve probably heard of...
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Sarah Davis
Jul 19, 20232 min
How to Motivate Yourself in Grad School by Using Self-Consequating
Self-consequating is the first strategy from Wolters (2003) that I’ll be elaborating on in this series of motivation regulation...
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Sarah Davis
Jul 12, 20233 min
How To Regulate Your Motivation in Grad School
If there’s one word that I hear the most in my work with graduate students, it’s motivation. Whenever I’m having these conversations with...
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Sarah Davis
Jun 7, 20234 min
Strategies Are (Probably) Not The Answer to Your Grad School Problems
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the benefits of self-regulating your learning for graduate students. I outlined the four steps of...
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Sarah Davis
May 24, 20234 min
How to Self-Regulate Your Learning in Grad School
Today I'm going to discuss self-regulated learning, the educational psychology theory that forms the base of all of our work with...
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Sarah Davis
May 17, 20234 min
3 Tips for Reducing Stress in Grad School
Looking for evidence-based ways to reduce stress in grad school? We have three tips for you today that we know work because we used them...
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