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“[P]raise fosters intrinsic motivation and adaptive behaviors to a greater extent when it is perceived as informational as opposed to controlling” (Corpus, Ogle, and Love-Geiger, 2006, p.... The intrinsically motivated students are willingly involved in the activities.... This is so because when the students get the right feedback, they realize that their hard work has been acknowledged and appreciated by the teacher whereas their wrong behaviors have been discouraged or condemned....
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Research Paper
Online education is a medium of providing instructions to students by teachers with the assistance of different forms of technologies.... Those in the favor of traditional learning methods assert that students learn in a better manner when they are involved in learning along with other students.... One of the major concerns associated with distance learning is communication that takes place between teachers and students....
This paper discusses that the Department of Education of US asserts that number of students enrolling in nontraditional means of education is increasing at a higher pace than number of students enrolling in traditional form of educational system....
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Essay
The number of students represented in the survey comprised at least 30% of the total number of adult learners at the institution.... The study involved a comparison of factors influencing the ennoblement of adult learners into colleges and therefore the variables may neither be described as dependent vs.... The paper "The Enrollment of Senior students" underlines that the key barriers to enrolling on institutions of higher learning among adults have risen from the 2004-2005 period to the period 2010 further reflect the effects of economic hard times....
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Most high school students are said to be undergoing various challenges while at school, these problems may include: fear of failure, lack of academic success, social pressures, lack of confidence in themselves, misplacement of papers and books, frequent absenteeism, lack of motivation and quietness while in school.... It discusses various ways on how to motivate high school students in order to enhance learning in them.
Motivating high school students is difficult since the students are mature and they think analytically for themselves, taking nothing for granted....
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Essay
He sees grades as powerful judges of students' success or failure.... He discusses research that suggests that grades can interfere with the learning process and the quality of learning when students are only working to get the grade and therefore decrease intrinsic motivation.... He even cited research that showed that “good” grades could also create unmotivated students.... The common systems used include competency-based or criterion based grading where students are graded on achieving a certain competency in skills, and the point systems where students earn points for completing work....
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He decided with three other students to double up in Science.... If three of his fellow students could take these courses, he knew that he was more than capable as well.... If three of my fellow students could take these courses, I knew that I was more than capable as well.... His teaching style did not reach me or many of my fellow students.... In the essay “My sophomore Year” the author looks back to failure his sophomore year....
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Personal Statement
Sometimes extrinsic motivation can diminish the internal drive to complete work as rewards can at times serve as discouraging rather than encouraging and that would undermine self-motivation and interest of learning new tasks and lessons.... This essay explores what strategies could be utilized to enhance motivation for students in senior level education.... This paper illustrates that students can be motivated intrinsically by letting them do something which is interesting and enjoyable....
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Essay
From the paper "Students' Attitudes towards motivation and Technology in a Turkish Language Classroom" it is clear that the application of technology appears to ease the peer pressure upon the learners and reduce anxiety, consequently making the students feel comfortable with the learning environment.... The study focuses on how the existing attitudes affect the motivation and technology use by students, within this environment.... The main topics discussed are the attitudes of students and their roles in motivation and the utilization of technology in the language learning environmentThe motivation and attitudes expressed by students are one of the critical factors that have been determined as having a significant impact on the success of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) environment (Doherty 2002; Brandl 2002)....
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Research Proposal
