Student Motivation

Motivating Students is a chapter from Tools for Teaching that offers a number of strategies to motivate students, including those related to instructional behaviours, course format and structure, grades, instructor responsiveness, and student readings.

An Exercise in Motvating Yourself is an on-line exercise to assist in defining personal standards of motivation, both intrinsic and extrinsic. A project description and feedback on each page of the exercise is provided for students.

Motivation and Goal Setting are two excerpts from the student handbook at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. The web sites discuss the importance of motivation and ways for its enhancement via goal setting.

Motivation takes a theoretical approach in its discussion of motivation. The theories of experiential learning, drive reduction, and purposive behaviourism are used in the understanding of motivational processes.

How Effective Communication Can Enhance Teaching at the College Level is an ERIC Digest focusing on the verbal and nonverbal communication of professors and graduate teaching assistants. Methods to improve communication and student motivation are discussed.

Motivation and Transfer in Language Learning identifies six factors affecting motivation and offers instructional strategies to enhance student motivation. The discussion relates to language learning but may be generalized to other disciplines.