The Decade Ahead: Theoretical Perspectives on Motivation and Achievement -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Self-efficacy in educational settings: Recent research and emerging directions -- Self-efficacy and social cognitive theory -- Looking back: A snapshot of self-efficacy research in the last decade -- Review of measurement of self- and collective efficacy -- Looking Ahead -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2. Expectancy-value theory: retrospective and prospective -- Overview -- Modern expectancy-value models in developmental and educational psychology -- Defining the expectancy, value, and ability belief constructs in this model -- Major research findings on expectancies and values -- Prospective: New research directions -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3. Up around the bend: Forecasts for achievement goal theory and research in 2020 -- A (brief) review of achievement goal research -- Mastery goals vs. multiple goals -- Conceptual and methodological issues concerning achievement goal constructs -- Our 'wish list' for the next 10 years of achievement goal research: Methods, mechanisms, and multiple goals -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4. The development of the five mini-theories of self-determination theory: an historical overview, emerging trends, and future directions -- Cognitive evaluation theory -- Organismic integration theory -- Causality orientations theory -- Basic psychological needs theory -- Goal content theory -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 5. Self-concept as persons' understanding and evaluation of their own actions and experiences: looking backward and forward from where we are -- A history of the psychology of self-concept.

Replacing selves with persons, and self-concept with persons' understanding and evaluation of their own actions and experiences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 6. Implicit motives: Current topics and future directions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Motives, information processing, and cognition -- 3. The biological underpinnings of implicit motives -- 4. The affective basis of implicit motives -- 5. Motives and nonverbal communication -- 6. Interactions between implicit and explicit motives -- 7. Assessment of implicit motives -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7. Interest in the dynamics of task behavior: processes that link person and task in effective learning -- Dynamic systems and self-organization -- Current directions in interest research -- Emergence and maintenance of interest schema -- Interest processes as affective---cognitive schema -- Interest within networks of motivation and self-regulatory processes -- Broader perspectives on interest in development -- Conclusion -- References.