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A/PROF MARY AINLEY



Contact Details

Organization: Behavioural Science
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff/AinleyM.html
Work: 8344 6291
Fax: 9347 6618
Room: 605
Level: 06
Building: Redmond Barry Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Relationship between interest and learning Australia
Children's knowledge and skills in conflict situations Australia
Developmental and Educational Psychology Australia
Curiosity, interest, motivation, engagement; conflict and social information processing skills Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Finland University of Helsinki Research
Canada University of Toronto Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Graduate Diploma in Education University of Melbourne
Master of Arts University of Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) Australian Teaching and Learning Council 2008 Citation 06-Aug-2008

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Engagement with schooling: influences of motivation processes on the development and application of independent thinking skills Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
BALWYN HIGH SCHOOL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2004

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • Interest & learning: From attraction to absorbing interest
    Year: 2008
    Book: Adult Educational Psychology
    Publisher: Sense Publishers(Rotterdam)
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Journal Articles

  • Staying with the text: The contribution of gender, achievement orientations and interest to students' performance on a literary task


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Educational Psychology
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 757-776
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  • Staying with the text: the contribution of gender, achievement orientations, and interest to students' performance on a literacy task


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Educational Psychology
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 757-776
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  • The elusive experience of 'flow': qualitative and quantitative indicators
    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Educational Research
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 109-121
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Being and feeling interested: Transient state, mood and disposition
    Year: 2007
    Book: Emotion in education
    Publisher: Elsevier(New York)
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  • Interest and self-regulation: Relationships between two variables that influence learning
    Year: 2007
    Book: Motivation and self-regulated learning
    Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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  • The role of interest and self-efficacy in science related expository writing
    Year: 2007
    Book: Writing and motivation
    Publisher: Elsevier(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Motivational perspectives on students' responses to learning in virtual learning environments
    Year: 2006
    Book: The International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments
    Publisher: Springer
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Journal Articles

  • Connecting with learning: Motivation, affect and cognition in interest processes
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Educational Psychology Review
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 391-405
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  • measuring self-regulated learning processes through tracking patterns of student interaction with achievement activities
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Educational Psychology Review
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 267-286
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Perfectionism and the gifted: A study of an Australian school sample
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Education Journal
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 232-239
    Publisher: Institute of International Education, Flinders University(Adelaide)
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  • Students, tasks and emotions: Identifying the contribution of emotions to students' reading of popular culture and popular science texts
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Learning and Instruction
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 433-447
    Publisher: Pergamon
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  • The ebb and flow of on-line learning
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Computers in Human Behavior
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 745-771
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  • The ebb and flow of online learning
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Computers in Human Behavior
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 745-771
    Publisher: Pergamon
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Reports

  • Schooling Issue Digest: Student Motivation and Engagement
    Year: 2005
    Customer: Department of Education, Science and Training. Australian Government
    Report No:: 2005/2
    Publisher: Department of Education, Science and Training
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Book Review. Gifted Children Grown Up.
    Year: 2003
    Journal: High Ability Studies
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 95-97
    Publisher: Carfax Publishing(Oxfordshire)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Dynamic measures for studying interest and learning
    Year: 2002
    Book: New Directions in Measures and Methods
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Interest and adolescence
    Year: 2002
    Book: Academic Motivation of Adolescents
    Publisher: Information Age Publishing(Greenwich)
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  • Learning with ICT: The role of interactivity and student motivation
    Year: 2002
    Book: Opportunistic Challenges: Teaching and learning with ICT
    Publisher: Nova Science Publishers(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Interest, learning and the psychological processes that mediate their relationship.


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Educational Psychology
    Volume: 94
    Page numbers: 545-561
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  • Children's argument writing, interest and self-efficacy: an intervention study
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Learning and Instruction
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 429-446
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  • Gender and interest processes in response to literary texts: situational and individual interest
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Learning and Instruction
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 411-428
    Publisher: Pergamon
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  • Interest, Learning, and the Psychological Processes That Mediate Their Relationship
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Educational Psychology
    Volume: 94
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 545-561
    Publisher: American Psychological Association(Washington DC)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Interest in learning and classroom interaction
    Year: 2001
    Book: Perspectives on practice and meaning in mathematics and science classrooms
    Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers(Dordrecht)
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Journal Articles

  • Video clips and animation in chemistry cd-roms: student interest and preference
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Science Teachers Journal
    Volume: 47
    Page numbers: 9-16
    Publisher: Australian Science Teachers Association
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