Professional Literature Summary

Article #6

Bib. Information Cruzan, D. & Kaluszka, D. (N.D.) Motivation and assessment: The impact of
(APA Formatting): choice on motivation in classroom assessments. Retrieved from
https://scholar.vt.edu/access/content/user/
dcruzan/PortfolioPublic/ActionResearchProposal_Final.pdf

Author(s) Affiliation: Dale Cruzan and Chanda Kaluszka - Students from Virginia Tech

Type of Resource: This article is a teacher action research proposal submitted from students at
(Scholarly Virginia Tech.
/Trade/Other)

Summary of essential o role of assessments on student motivation

information: o choice of assessments are ignited by mastery climate, not performance
o self-assessment encourages self-management and monitoring
o constructs self-knowledge and learning from mistakes
o assessment methods included using student input for assessments,
motivation questionnaires, and assistance in rustic design

Potential relevance to This article is an odd one, as it is actually a proposed teacher action research
your research topic project from students at Virginia Tech. While I did find this article to be helpful
and study: regarding information about assessment or motivation, I did find it to be
beneficial with ideas on what kinds of data to collect from students. In the
study, these researchers used questionnaires and allowed for student input in
design, which will be helpful in the approach I use for self-assessment in my
own classroom.