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8 MURPHY AND ALEXANDERFIG. 1. The resulting corpus of 20 motivation terms relevant to academic achievementand motivation.of the literature. Using the chosen constructs as our key words, we examinedresearch cataloged in several on-line retrieval systems, including EducationalResources Information Center (ERIC), PsyLit, and Sociofile. In addition, wephysically checked the volumes for the 17 journals suggested by our expertsthat had been published in the past 5 years. (See Table 1 for the titles ofthose journals.) At this stage in our deliberations, we included any work inthe pool that incorporated one of our motivational terms in title or in abstractas well as any article written by one of the key motivational researchersnamed by our expert panel (e.g., Ames, Bandura, or Dweck). Also, we initiallyincorporated any of the specific writings nominated by our experts (n 5). All totaled, this pool consisted of over 120 published articles, books, andbook chapters.Establishing the Criteria for InclusionAs we have done in previous reviews (Alexander et al., 1991; Alexander,Kulikowich, & Jetton, 1994), we formulated criteria that would guide us inour selection of writings for final analysis. After due consideration, weagreed on three criteria to delimit this review. First, we focused on motiva-