All About Motivation — What Drives Students to Work Hard — And To Like It

Autonomy, responsibility, and other insights into what drives students to want to work hard — and to like it.

When you allow autonomy and require responsibility, you encourage motivation and self-guided learning in your students — and you fuel academic achievement and a sense of excitement. Here, we explore these and other insights into student motivation from researchers and experts in the field of education.

Does offering students a choice in assignments lead to greater engagement?

Decades of psychological research concludes that providing students with choices leads to increased in autonomy and, in turn, motivation and learning. Students, like adults, tend to be more motivated to complete a task — and perform better on it — when they choose to engage in the task themselves, rather than having the task chosen for them…