This requires making our learning activities just right, neither too difficult nor to easy. Challenge with achievable goals maximizes our students’ expectancies for success. A cognitive perspective on ...

Modeling a safe and supportive classroom starts with consistently demonstrating kindness, respect, and empathy in every ...

AI offers a surprising lens on how we think about student motivation and why behavior may matter more than belief.

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 ...

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 ...

High-paying salaries, prestige and furthering academic and career goals were at the top of the list for why students wanted to go to law school over a decade ago. But these days, most students say ...