# Motivation and emotion/Assessment/Selection

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* Book - 2024

## Overview

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* Due: Week 02 Mon 9am 05 Aug 2024
* Ungraded early assessment exercise
* Tasks
** Create a Wikiversity account
** Sign up to (or negotiate) an approved topic for the major project — see book chapter table of contents
** Ask any clarifying questions
* Follow the instructions

## Marking and feedback

* No marks
* Feedback will be provided to:
** Approve topic selection
** Respond to student questions
** Provide suggestions
* Feedback will be available via UCLearn before the topic development due date
* Follow up if you don't understand the feedback

## Extensions and late submissions

* No extensions or late submissions
* If you don't submit, go ahead and sign up to an approved topic, and move on to the topic development exercise

## Learning outcomes

How the unit's learning outcomes are addressed by this assessment exercise:
| Learning outcome | Assessment task |
| Critically apply knowledge of motivation or emotion to an indepth understanding of a specific topic in this field. | Select an appropriate, unique, specific motivation or emotion topic for the major project |

## Graduate attributes

How the unit's graduate attributes are addressed by this assessment exercise:
| Graduate attribute | Assessment task |
| Be professional — communicate effectively | Communicate by signing up to a topic, submitting for approval, and asking clarifying questions |
| Be professional — display initiative and drive, and use organisation skills to plan and manage workload | Get organised by selecting a topic |
| Be a lifelong learner — evaluate and adopt new technology | Create a Wikiversity account and make at least 1 edit by signing up to a topic |

## Instructions

Create a Wikiversity account and sign up to a pre-approved major project topic in the book chapter table of contents or negotiate a new topic. This topic will be used for the topic development, book chapter, and multimedia presentation. Ask any clarifying questions.

### Create a Wikiversity account

* User names start with a capital letter
* Can use real name, pseudonym, student number etc.

### Sign up to a topic

Pre-approved topics are available via the book chapter table of contents)
* How to sign up:
** Click "Edit source" (or "Edit")
** Replace User Name alongside the topic of interest with your Wikiversity user name
** Click "Publish"
* Conduct an initial literature search. If the topic is too broad or narrow, it may be difficult to satisfy the marking criteria
* Pre-approved topics can be modified by emailing a revised title and sub-title to the unit convener
* You can change topics by moving your username to a topic without an author
* More topics will be added, but students are also encouraged to propose topics

### New topics

New topics must be approved by the unit convener.
* Ways to get some ideas:
** Look through chapters written in previous years
** Check out similar projects on the internet
* New topics must:
** Be unique: Topic must not already be sufficiently covered by a previous motivation and motivation book chapter. Search before making a proposal. How does the proposed topic build on, or differ from, previous work?
** Align with the project theme: Topic must be related to related to motivation or emotion and fit the overarching book theme which is to help people to understand and improve their motivational and emotional lives using psychological science
** Have appropriate scope: If the topic is too narrow, or if there is a lack of psychological theory and research, it will be difficult to satisfy the marking criteria
* To propose a new topic, email the unit convener with these details:
** Title
** Sub-title (in the form of a question) — see examples
** Wikiversity user name
** Details of any related previous book chapter topics (check via this search box)

### Ask clarifying questions

* What questions could you ask to help you to successfully tackle the major project?