Student motivation can be a persistent challenge in college learning. Students shift from being bored to inspired and back––moment to moment, day to day, class to class. How do students initiate and maintain their own motivation? How can educators facilitate and complement this dynamic process? In this Innovation Insights Research Talk, Carlton Fong will discuss these issues and more based on his recent meta-analytic study on the role of motivational regulation strategies published in the Journal of Educational Psychology. You’ll learn about what these strategies entail and how they are related to students’ achievement, engagement, motivation, and other learning processes.


Innovation Insights
The Center for Academic Innovation brings together people who want to transform education, share knowledge, and increase learner success by hosting inspiring talks, collaborative problem-solving workshops, and discussions on the latest in educational research and practice. The Innovation Insights series features a diverse lineup of topics, delivered by leaders in academia and private industry, united by the common goals of delivering insights into how to further academic innovation and build the future of education.


About Carlton Fong
Dr. Carlton J. Fong is an associate professor in the Graduate Program in Postsecondary Student Success at Texas State University. As a scholar-activist at the intersection of educational psychology and higher education, Dr. Fong uses a sociocultural lens to study motivational factors influencing postsecondary student engagement, achievement, and persistence. He was awarded the 2023 Richard E. Snow Award for Early Contributions from the American Psychological Association, the Rising Star designation by the Association for Psychological Science, and a Deeper Learning Fellowship by the American Educational Research Association. He currently serves as an associate editor for Review of Educational Research.