TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond Cold Conceptual Change
T2 - The Role of Motivational Beliefs and Classroom Contextual Factors in the Process of Conceptual Change
AU - Pintrich, Paul R.
AU - Marx, Ronald W.
AU - Boyle, Robert A.
PY - 1993/6
Y1 - 1993/6
N2 - Conceptual change models of student learning are useful for explicating the role of prior knowledge in students' learning and are very popular in the research on learning in the subject areas. This article presents an analysis of a conceptual change model for describing student learning by applying research on student motivation to the process of conceptual change. Four general motivational constructs (goals, values, self-efficacy, and control beliefs) are suggested as potential mediators of the process of conceptual change. In addition, there is a discussion of the role of classroom contextual factors as moderators of the relations between student motivation and conceptual change. The article highlights the theoretical difficulties of a cold, or overly rational, model of conceptual change that focuses only on student cognition without considering the ways in which students' motivational beliefs about themselves as learners and the roles of individuals in a classroom learning community can facilitate or hinder conceptual change.
AB - Conceptual change models of student learning are useful for explicating the role of prior knowledge in students' learning and are very popular in the research on learning in the subject areas. This article presents an analysis of a conceptual change model for describing student learning by applying research on student motivation to the process of conceptual change. Four general motivational constructs (goals, values, self-efficacy, and control beliefs) are suggested as potential mediators of the process of conceptual change. In addition, there is a discussion of the role of classroom contextual factors as moderators of the relations between student motivation and conceptual change. The article highlights the theoretical difficulties of a cold, or overly rational, model of conceptual change that focuses only on student cognition without considering the ways in which students' motivational beliefs about themselves as learners and the roles of individuals in a classroom learning community can facilitate or hinder conceptual change.
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U2 - 10.3102/00346543063002167
DO - 10.3102/00346543063002167
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84970123386
SN - 0034-6543
VL - 63
SP - 167
EP - 199
JO - Review of Educational Research
JF - Review of Educational Research
IS - 2
ER -