Two academic researchers and lecturers discuss the many factors that boost short- and long-term motivation and how to get ...

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 ...

This post is by Kim Carter, the Executive Director of the Q.E.D. Foundation, an organization of adults and youth working together to create and sustain student-centered learning communities, and a ...

Basic principles of motivation exist that are applicable to learning in any education situation. 1. The environment can be used to focus the student’s attention on what needs to be learned. Teachers ...

"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, ...

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The Elementary School Journal, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Jan., 2004), pp. 253-266 (14 pages) In this study we examined students' motivation in an elementary physical education running program using achievement ...

As outlined in this presentation, limited literacy skills, lower educational attainment, and being an immigrant are potential barriers to motivation towards life-long learning among middle-aged adults ...