David Miele

This research explores how students remember and evaluate challenging math experiences that include extra opportunities for success, and how memories of those experiences relate to students' achievement motivation, performance, future choices, task effort, and persistence. The research team will also identify factors that influence students' experiences of academic success. Success can enhance motivation, while failure can undermine students' motivation to engage in similar experiences.

Northwestern University's School of Education and Social Policy established the Multidisciplinary Program in the Education Sciences (MPES) to support interdisciplinary doctoral training.