MOTIVATIONIN THE CLASSROOM

Cheryl L. Spaulding is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Connecticut, where she specializes in English education. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, her dissertation work focusing on high school students' motivation to write about academic topics. She is the author of articles appearing in Teacher Education Quarterly, The Teacher Educator, Research in the Teaching of English, Language Arts, and The High School Journal. Her ongoing research interests include the study of motivational processes in language arts classrooms and the study of teachers' conceptions of human motivation with an emphasis on how those conceptions change through professional experience and study.