Motivation and emotion/Textbook/Feedback

This page provides a summary of feedback about the Motivation and emotion student textbook chapters.

Marks
The mean textbook chapter mark was 72/100.

Example chapters
One good way to get further feedback about the chapter authoring exercise is look through chapters which attained a high grade. Also note that feedback about each chapter can be found on its respective talk page.

Here's a list of some very good chapters:
 * 1) Motivation and self-concept
 * 2) Empathy
 * 3) Emotion management
 * 4) Motivational toxicity
 * 5) Paraphilias
 * 6) Procrastination
 * 7) Motivation and violence
 * 8) Emotional development in children
 * 9) Neurobiology of aggression
 * 10) Dieting
 * 11) Sexual motivation
 * 12) Alcohol consumption and sexual motivation‎‎‎‎
 * 13) Student motivation theories
 * 14) Motivation and aggression in the workplace
 * 15) Happiness
 * 16) Emotion and sleep

Marking criteria
Below are some general comments about this exercise.

Overall

 * 1) Overall, the standard was high. Many students embraced the exercise and provided interesting, indepth chapters which clearly demonstrated an understanding of relevant theory and research.

Theory

 * 1) The best chapters demonstrated a solid understanding of emotion and/or motivation theory in relation to the specific topic of interest.
 * 2) The best chapters provided critical analysis of theory, based on research and argument.
 * 3) The best chapters provided examples and/or case studies.

Research

 * 1) This was possibly the weakest area. Not all chapters demonstrated evidence of a close reading of key research in the topic area.
 * 2) Some chapters cited research but did not describe key studies in any depth in terms of methodology, results and implications.
 * 3) The best chapters included description of effect sizes and some included summary tables and/or graphs.

Written expression

 * 1) The quality of written expression varied widely - from highly professional, polished writing in full APA style through to weaker chapters which lacked proofreading, clarity and APA style.
 * 2) The best chapters combined effective content with additional learning features, such as captioned imaged, wiki-links, review/quiz questions, and links to further resources.
 * 3) Some images were uploaded without appropriate copyright details and so these images were deleted.

More info

 * 1) Some more commonly repeated feedback is available here: Motivation and emotion/Chapter/Feedback/2010