Assignment Instructions
Week 6 Assignment:
Hi Students. Here we are in Week 6. The idea behind this assignment is to acquaint you with ideas and mechanisms to help individuals learn and increase their motivation to learn. We’re going to do that through a literature review. Here you will select five scholarly or empirical articles: What that means is that they are NOT WEBSITES, NOT TEXTS, but journal articles and they have been presented in what we would call a refereed journal. Typically, a refereed journal can begin with The Journal of Sport Psychology, but not always. A referred journal is one which the author(s) has submitted an article for publication to a review board. That board then reviews the article and votes it in or out of a particular journal, thereby increasing the authenticity, strength, and reliability to the article.
I’m asking that you select five articles in the learning and motivation area that speak to a specific motivational/learning issue. For example, perhaps you’re working with some individual who needs to lose weight or needs to gain a specific amount of strength, or learn a new skill or improve one they have already learned. Choose one specific situation or Skill, then, select five empirical articles that relate to this situation/skill and create an annotated bibliography about each article. Now remember: when you create an annotated bibliography, the reference leads prior to the summary. So, for example, with your first article: state the reference in APA format, then follow with a summary. You do this for article #2, #3, #4 and #5. Finally, create a comprehensive, overall summary. Typically, an annotated bibliography would be 1 -2 pages. After thoroughly reviewing readings, lecture notes, and websites, complete the following assignment:
Annotated Bibliography within Sport Psychology
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to expose students to a psychological skills topic of Learning and Motivation. You are asked to obtain five empirical articles directly related to learning and motivation. For each article, write an annotated bibliography, thus reading and reporting on the article in great depth. Finally, integrate the findings from the annotated bibliography into a summary report detailing the current state of knowledge on learning and motivation
Process:
-Select a psychological skills topic dealing with Learning and Motivation
-Locate five empirical studies frm Scholarly journal articles only, not websites, which test principles related to that topic
(articles should be recent; 1995 to present time)
-For each selected article, write a one-page annotated bibliography,
You must begin with the APA reference, then write the summary including purpose, hypotheses sample,
measures, procedures, design, statistical results, interpretation of
results, practical implications, and scholarly implications
-Summarize the findings from the five sources through the writing of a
brief report detailing the results gleaned on the topic (integrate the
results; do not simply write five separate summaries)
-Make sure you document each article using APA style of referencing……
Please let me know if you have any questions.
The length of this assignment should be 6 pages plus a title and reference page.
