Speaker Profile

Allan L. Wigfield, PhD

Professor Emeritus; Distinguished Scholar Teacher, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland; Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Heidelberg; Distinguished International Professor, Hector Research Institute for Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Tubingen; K-CLUB Adjunct Faculty, Department of Education and Brain and Motivation Research Institute, Korea University; Consultant, Digital Promise, Lexia Core5 Reading; Member, American Educational Research Association; Member, Society for Research in Child Development; Elected Member, National Academy of Education; Recipient of the 2019 AERA Division C “Sylvia Scribner” Award; Co-Author, Motivation, Achievement, and Situated Expectancy-Value Theory: Making One’s Future (2026), “’Can (A) I Do This Task?’: The Role of AI as A Socializer of Students' Self-Beliefs of Their Abilities” (2025, Learning and Individual Differences), “The Role of Children's Achievement Values in the Self-Regulation of Their Learning Outcomes” (2023, Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance), and “A Brief History of Research into Reading Motivation” (2023, Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts)

Allan L.Wigfield, PhD

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Teaching Motivated Minds
Applying Brain Science to Boost Mastery, Meaning, Motivation, Metacognition, and Learning
Hilton Austin, Austin, TX
November 12-14, 2026

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