Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ549831
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Course Enrichment and the Job Characteristics Model.
Catanzaro, Diane
Teaching of Psychology, v24 n2 p85-87 1997
Describes how the job characteristics model (J. R. Hackman), used by industrial-organizational psychologists to enhance the motivating potential of jobs in industry, can be applied to increase student motivation. The job characteristics model describes the relationship between the core characteristics of skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, feedback, and employee motivation. (MJP)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Objectives, Education Work Relationship, Higher Education, Industrial Psychology, Instructional Development, Learning Motivation, Models, Motivation Techniques, Occupational Information, Organizational Development, Skill Analysis, Student Motivation, Task Analysis, Teaching Methods, Transfer of Training
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
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