Motivational dynamics encompass the processes through which learners’ drive to engage, persist and achieve emerges, unfolds and adapts within educational settings. Central to this field is the ...

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." —Dwight D. Eisenhower In an era where remote work and education are becoming the norm, ...

Editor’s note: This article on learning and student motivation originally appeared on the Christensen Institute’s blog and is reposted here with permission. In 2020, my wife and I bought a used 2017 ...

Research on teaching in recent years has awakened faculty members to the importance of cultivating intrinsic motivation in class. The idea is that, instead of relying on grades or late penalties to ...

Dan Greenstein and Jamie Merisotis’s “Education Does Reduce Inequality” (op-ed, April 10) focuses on the supposed effects of education rather than on the people being educated. As a microbusiness ...

Intrinsic motivation, the internal drive to engage in activities for their inherent satisfaction, is a fundamental aspect of effective learning. This concept, rooted in the principles of ...

Motivation Matters covered what works, and what doesn’t work, to motivate students to do better in school. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on ...

Self-regulated learning (SRL), academic motivation, and student engagement are among the most studied constructs in educational psychology — and also among ...

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