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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 – ...

Student motivation is complex and dynamic, so there are many factors that affect it. These include things that are internal to the student (e.g., their beliefs, emotions, achievement history), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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., ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, inspires students worldwide through his words on learning, ambition, ...

Here’s what teenagers can do to equip themselves to move forward during this difficult and frustrating time. By Lisa Damour The school year is still young, yet parents and students alike may have ...