When an exam is coming up, many students focus on memorizing vocab and skimming textbooks even if that isn't the best way to ...

Empathetic teachers enhance children's motivation and academic skills, such as reading, writing and arithmetic skills. A positive atmosphere created by the teacher also safeguards and increases ...

While many factors contribute to a student’s capacity for accomplishment, naturally motivated students from higher socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to succeed, according to a new study.

A new study of KIPP, a large charter network serving mainly low-income black and Hispanic students, finds that its schools continue to have a positive impact overall on student achievement, and yet ...

Are you finding it difficult to get started or sustain already devised study plans? Are you tempted to slip back to the fatal illusion of promising yourself that you will start studying tomorrow?

About 92% of Indian professionals find workplace recognition the strongest motivating factor, according to a study conducted ...

A hot new research study out of Germany finds that, when it comes to student growth in mathematics, motivation and effective study skills are more important than sheer intelligence. The study, ...

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 ...