Guiding Questions: 1. Are unions a factor in the low success rates of students? 2. Who comes first, students or employees? 3. Are past or current professional development training effective? 4. Are evaluations taken seriously? 5. Do states with no bargaining agreements have higher student success rates? Assignment Instructions: The purpose of this assignment is for you to engage in relevant literature in learning and motivation around an area of personal or professional interest to you. You are encouraged to focus on a learning-and/or motivation-related problem of practice in your personal or professional life. Once you have identified this problem of practice, you should develop a guiding question that will help you narrow your research and focus your writing. Your written submission will be an APA-formatted, mini-literature review paper of no more than5 pages (double-spaced, 12-point font, excluding references) that answers your guiding question. The paper should include a synthesis of relevant and credible research. The goal for this assignment is to provide a literature review that has both depths of reviewed literature and efficiency in the written presentation. Literature reviews in empirical articles in top journals are examples of literature reviews with a depth of reviewed literature that is efficiently presented.   Assignment Outcomes: By the end of this assignment, you should be able to: 1.Identify research to address a learning-or motivation-related problem of practice in personal or professional practice. 2.Synthesize research to answer a guiding question that informs your chosen problem of practice. 3.Write efficiently and clearly for an academic audience.