Motivation and emotion/Textbook/Feedback

General feedback about the
student-authored textbook chapter exercise

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}}

See also

• Marking criteria
• Marking dispute process