Extrinsic motivation is motivation that come from outside oneself. Examples include doing something for financial gain, promotion, praise or approval, or to win a competition. Depending on the ...

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It's not how smart students are but how motivated they are and how they study that determines their growth in math achievement. That's the main finding of a study that looks at six annual waves of ...

To assess if the correlations with the DA measures were specific for the surrogate trait measure of motivation, we also inspected correlations with the broad trait measures of Positive Emotionality ...

This study examines the degree to which cognitive and affective aspects of mathematics learning shape adolescents’ interest and achievement in mathematics. It specifically investigates age-related ...

Parents have an important role in identifying children's talent and guiding them. Mutual understanding and close relationship between parents and children therefore is recommended to stir up a strong ...

*** This article is part of a series on burnout. To learn how Implicit Motivation impacts burnout, see Burned out? Frustrated unconscious motives may be at fault In our highly success-oriented society ...

The Journal of Experimental Education, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Spring, 1993), pp. 257-267 (11 pages) In Experiment 1, college undergraduates were given three tests measuring state, trait, and text anxiety.

Greg Montalvo is a Professor of Educational Psychology in the School of Education. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the areas of learning and instruction, achievement motivation, human ...

At various times in your life, you have probably decided to make a change in your life. Perhaps on New Year’s Day or a birthday, or after the death of a loved one, you have resolved to do things ...