Volume 1, Issue 8 – Using Choice to Increase Motivation
Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing the concept of using choice to increase motivation.
Giving students‟ choice in an easy and effective strategy for increasing their motivation. In an article for the Journal of Educational Psychology, researchers at Duke University and the University of Texas-Austin conducted a study on the effect of choice on high school students‟ homework completion (the results of which are quite applicable to elementary school).
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