Jacquelynne Sue Eccles (born 1944) is an American
educational psychologist
An educational psychologist is a psychologist whose differentiating functions may include diagnostic and psycho-educational Psychological evaluation, assessment, psychological counseling in educational communities (students, teachers, parents, ...
. She is the Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California, Irvine and formerly the McKeachie/Pintrich Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Michigan.
Career
Eccles holds a Ph.D. from
University of California, Los Angeles
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. Her work has focused on topics related to social development, student motivation, and
gender roles
A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for a person based on that person's sex. Gender roles are usually cent ...
in education. Among her most noteworthy research contributions are the
expectancy-value theory of motivation and the concept of
stage-environment fit.
Honors and awards
She received the Kurt Lewin Memorial Award in 1999, the
James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award The James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award is an award of the Association for Psychological Science given since 1992. The award is named after James McKeen Cattell and "honors individuals for their lifetime of significant intellectual contributions to t ...
in 1996 and the
E. L. Thorndike Award The E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Awards is an award of the American Psychological Association given to living recipients for substantial career achievements in educational psychology. The award's winners are recognized for research in the best ...
in 2005. She was awarded the
from the
American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with over 133,000 members, including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. It ha ...
in 2017.
Selected publications
* Eccles, J. S., Midgley, C., Wigfield, A., Buchanan, C. M., Reuman, D., Flanagan, C., & Mac Iver, D. (1993). "Development during adolescence: The impact of stage-environment fit on young adolescents' experiences in schools and in families". ''American Psychologist'', 48(2), 90.
* Eccles, J. S., & Barber, B. L. (1999). "Student council, volunteering, basketball, or marching band what kind of extracurricular involvement matters?". ''Journal of Adolescent Research'', 14(1), 10–43.
* Wigfield, A., & Eccles, J. S. (2000). "Expectancy–value theory of achievement motivation". ''Contemporary Educational Psychology'', 25(1), 68–81.
* Eccles, J. S., & Wigfield, A. (2002). "Motivational beliefs, values, and goals". ''
Annual Review of Psychology
The ''Annual Review of Psychology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes review articles about psychology. First published in 1950, its longest-serving editors have been Mark Rosenzweig (1969–1994) and Susan Fiske (2000– ...
'', 53(1), 109–132.
References
University of Michigan faculty
American women psychologists
21st-century American psychologists
1944 births
Living people
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women
20th-century American psychologists
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