Amanda Durik, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Phone: (815)753-7069
Fax: (815)753-8088
adurik@niu.edu
Office: PM 414
EDUCATION
Ph.D.: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Factors that promote optimal motivation (interest and performance) in achievement situations; achievement goals; the development of interest.
FREQUENTLY TAUGHT CLASSES
- Psyc 433 Social and Personality Laboratory
- Psyc 472 Group Processes
- Psyc 620 Experimental Social Psychology
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- Harackiewicz, J. M., Durik, A. M., Barron, K. E., Linnenbrink-Garcia, L., & Tauer, J. M. (2008). The role of achievement goals in the development of interest: Reciprocal relations between achievement goals, interest and performance. Journal of Educational Psychology, 100(1), 105-122.
- Durik, A. M., & Harackiewicz, J. M. (2007). Different strokes for different folks: Indiviual interest as a moderator of the effects of situational factors on task interest. Joutnal of Educational Psychology, 99(3), 597-610.
- Durik, A. M., Vida, M., & Eccles, J. S. (2006). Task values and ability beliefs as predictors of high school literacy choices: A developmental analysis. Journal of Educational Psychology, 98(2), 382-393.
REPRESENTATIVE GRANTS
- Durik, A. M. (Spring 2004). The Effects of Personal and Situational Factors on Elementary School Students' Interest in Math, Reading, and Science. Adolescent and Youth Research Award, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
