Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/Goal-setting and happiness

Heading casing

FYI, the convention on Wikiversity is for lower-cased headings. For example, use: ==Cats and dogs== rather than ==Cats and Dogs== -- Jtneill - Talk - c 20:25, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Referencing

The overall structure looks good, but note that there is a distinct lack of referencing. -- Jtneill - Talk - c 20:25, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

This is an interesting topic - well done with the video - did you know that a ancient Chinese curse goes "May you fulfil your ambitions" - meaning that once a person actually achieves their goal, it does not necessarily lead to happinness - only more prolems. Magnolia

Chapter review and feedback

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Overall Overall comments This chapter demonstrates expert integration of goal-setting and positive psychology concepts and could be strengthened through critical analysis of theory and research findings. Theory Theory comments The prominent theorists in goal setting (Locke) and happiness (Lyubomirsky) appear throughout the chapter. The key components of goal setting are mentioned, including difficult, specific goals, feedback and goal acceptance. However, more text could be devoted towards explaining these theories and providing research support. The chapter would benefit from critical analysis of goal setting theory (e.g., intrinsically interesting tasks may be undermined by goal setting; failure feedback in set goals impacts happiness etc). Research Research comments The happiness exercise and goal guidelines really embrace the self-help focus of the chapter and are excellent features! The discussion of research findings could be expanded. The text makes numerous points without discussing the studies involved. For example, describe the research that demonstrates how goal setting engenders performance and goal attainment leading to emotional satisfaction (happiness). When discussing the theory and providing advice on creating specific and difficult goals, research could be integrated illustrating the effect of goal types. Difficult goals muster energy (in proportion to goal requirement); specific goals direct energy into behaviours more likely to achieve the desired end. Written expression Written expression comments While the conversational writing style is highly engaging, try to avoid contractions, one-sentence paragraphs, and colloquial expression (e.g., toss->discard; effort put in->invested, sorts of->types). There are some minor grammatical errors throughout. The referencing could better conform to APA style (e.g., italicise journal titles). The chapter demonstrated mastery of images (captions would assist) and boxes as learning features through the wiki platform. Well done!

Rfoster 08:35, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Multimedia feedback

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Overall Overall, this is a solid, effective, bright narrated audio to text/image slides. The main area for improvement is in slowing down the narration. Structure and content Initial introduction provided an overview and self-help focus. Content is well-selected and clearly addresses topic. No summary? Communication Voice-over speed could definitely be slowed and thereby be more effective - i.e., speak more slowly, leave more time between sentences and slides. This would mean being more selective about what to present. Slides were very well prepared and contained well-selected text and images. Production quality Overall production quality was quite good. Audio quality was OK (there was a little background noise) Sources for the images? (Were they used with permission? Otherwise, this would be violation of copyright). Well done on adding a link to the book chapter; also include this in the description or comments. Consider licensing the presentation under a Creative Commons license so that others can re-use.

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 10:43, 11 December 2011 (UTC)