Instead of having students compete for external rewards, fostering cooperation boosts intrinsic motivation and ensures that ...

This type of motivation may disappear when rewards and punishments are removed and may lead to more superficial learning. How much students care about succeeding at a goal will contribute to the ...

A teacher shares the strategy she developed to increase elementary students’ willingness to engage in productive struggle and ...

An international test of students in more than 80 countries and economies finds that many struggle with motivation.

Expecting to succeed and caring about the task. According to the expectancy-value model, our motivation is affected by two primary components of goals. Expectancy of whether a student can succeed at a ...

Student motivation plummeted when schooling was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Streitman, who teaches at Mayfield Middle School in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, says many kids came back to ...

Amid learning gaps and absences, California schools face an urgent need to prioritize student motivation and mental health. A comprehensive, multi-tiered approach fosters resilience, improves academic ...

While student motivation may have shifted over the years, LSAC’s senior director of prelaw engagement, Kyle McEntee, says in many ways student interests now are a good match for what law schools ...

Use university support services like Student Wellbeing if you need them (ongoing). Here are some suggestions for how you can celebrate small success to maintain motivation. Sometimes goals need to be ...

Languages here at Levenshulme High School have got quite a high profile within the school. We teach French, German, Spanish, Arabic and Urdu. We have a lot of students whose parents don’t speak ...