Motivation is connected to concepts dear to higher education – intellectual curiosity, grit, resilience, persistence, achievement, ambition. Whether the aim is to motivate first-year undergraduates to ...

Most teachers intrinsically understand the need to motivate their students, experts say, but teaching on intuition alone can lead to missteps in student engagement. A study released in May by the ...

How to motivate, engage and retain students is a commonly discussed topic in higher education. From one perspective, we seem to be further from finding the magic ingredient than ever before, ...

Research has shown that people put in extra effort on their goals after meaningful time markers like the start of a new year. The good news is, teachers can engineer these markers for students.

Who doesn’t like praise? But there are ways to make it more effective. Here’s something I wrote recently about the topic for Character Lab as a Tip of the Week: “What beautiful music!” I exclaim as my ...

Assignments are a crucial part of the learning experience for students. Yet, surprisingly, there are relatively few professional development resources or conference sessions on how to design ...

On a recent morning, I had the chance to read poems my ninth-grade English students had written about encounters with racism. I was struck by the beauty and poignance of many of their lines. Yet I ...

Hazing is not the way to create unity within an organization, and student awareness about this fact is necessary to break its ongoing cycle on Lehigh’s campus and on campuses nationwide. The main ...

It can be tough to get students to read their accounting textbooks. But what about piquing their interest with a podcast or an audiobook? About 10 years ago, professor Brigitte Muehlmann, CPA, Ph.D., ...

I present at conferences and lead workshops across the country on how to motivate college students using behavioral science strategies, and there's one question I get asked every single time: How do I ...

Lafayette Parish elementary students have another reason to meet their reading goals — the chance to win a brand-new bike or a number of other prizes thanks to a partnership with the Kiwanis Club of ...

Do you remember my story in the Introduction to this short course about how motivated changed me from a D student in the 4th grade to an all-A student in the 7th grade? We don’t all have a Miss Torti ...