Dale H. Schunk is an educational psychologist

Educational psychology

Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Educational psychology is concerned with how students learn and develop, often focusing...

, former Dean and current professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has researched the effects of social and instructional variables on cognition

Cognition

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, learning

Learning

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, self-regulation

Self-regulated learning

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 and motivation

Motivation

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. Schunk has served on the editorial boards of journals such as Contemporary Educational Psychology and Educational Psychology Review, and has authored many journal articles and book chapters on educational psychology. In addition to other books, he is author of the widely used textbook, Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective, and coauthor of Motivation in Education: Theory Research and Applications.

Schunk received the Albert J. Harris Research Award from the International Reading Association (1989), an Early Contributions Award from Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (1982), and the Fulbright Distinguished American Scholar Award (1997). Before moving to Purdue, Schunk taught educational psychology at the University of Houston

University of Houston

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 from 1979 to 1985 and at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1986 to 1993. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Illinois

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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, and he earned an M.Ed. degree from Boston University

Boston University

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 and a Ph.D.

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 from the Stanford University School of Education

Stanford University School of Education

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Selected recent publications

• Schunk, D. H. (2005). "Self-regulated learning: The educational legacy of Paul R. Pintrich". Educational Psychologist, 40, 85-94.
• Schunk, D. H. (2003). "Self-efficacy for reading and writing: Influence of modeling, goal setting, and self-evaluation". Reading and Writing Quarterly, 19, 159-172.
• Schunk, D. H. (2000). "Motivation for achievement: Past, present, and future". Issues in Education: Contributions from Educational Psychology, 6, 161-165.
• Schunk, D. H. (2000). "Coming to terms with motivation constructs". Contemporary Educational Psychology, 25 (116-119).
• Schunk, D. H., & Ertmer, P. A. (1999). "Self-regulatory processes during computer skill acquisition: Goal and self-evaluative influences". Educational Psychology, 91, 251-260.
• Schunk, D. H. (1999). "Social-self interaction and achievement behavior". Educational Psychologist, 34, 219-227.
• Schunk, D. H. (1998). "An educational psychologist's perspective on cognitive neuroscience". Educational Psychology Review, 10, 411-417.
• Schunk, D. H., & Zimmerman, B. J. (1997). "Social origins of self-regulatory competence". Educational Psychologist, 32, 195-208.
• Schunk, D. H., & Cutshall, D. (1997). "Motivation for lifelong learning". Kappa Delta Pi Record, 33, 124-128.

External links

• Dale Schunk CV