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 ...

The recent testing scandal in Georgia schools has prompted a spate of articles focusing our attention even more sharply on our nation’s education crisis and the significant need for school reform.

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Dear Bonni, What ideas do you have for student accountability?

Research on teaching in recent years has awakened faculty members to the importance of cultivating intrinsic motivation in class. The idea is that, instead of relying on grades or late penalties to ...

Advice for faculty to find and maintain the motivation that they, and their students, need to progress in their work and learning Motivation is connected to concepts dear to higher education – ...

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, ...

One theory contrasts implicit and explicit motivation. When we are implicitly motivated, we learn because we find the subject fascinating, because we want to achieve mastery of the subject or because ...

Study after study finds students’ motivation to learn is often driven by their relationships with their teachers, but a new report suggests many new educators enter the classroom with inconsistent ...

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 ...

As a new semester approaches, and we put the finishing touches on our syllabi, the issue of how to motivate students is very much on faculty minds. Behind every assignment, reading, and in-class ...

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., ...

One theory contrasts implicit and explicit motivation. When we are implicitly motivated, we learn because we find the subject fascinating, because we want to achieve mastery of the subject or because ...