Promoting Motivation and Learning.

Lowman, Joseph

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ERIC Number: EJ418521

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1990

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Promoting Motivation and Learning.

Lowman, Joseph

College Teaching, v38 n4 p136-39 Fall 1990

A review of research on college student motivation and its relationship to learning looks at popular views of motivation, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation, the effects of extrinsic rewards, similarities to learning orientation and grading orientation, evaluation methods, and the power structure in the classroom. (MSE)

Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Educational Research, Grading, Higher Education, Learning Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Power Structure, Rewards, Student Evaluation, Student Motivation

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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