One of the responsibilities of this blog is to troll for interesting or useful research articles about student motivation.

Overlearning, a common study habit, may not be as effective as believed. Research indicates its benefits are temporary. It ...

By making progress visible and celebrating small achievements, teachers can help students stay engaged from the first day of ...

A new Icelandic study finds men score slightly higher than women in passion for achievement and self-efficacy, while both ...

Children, often having a short attention span, get distracted, lose interest, or simply find studying boring. Here are some ways to encourage your child to study effectively.

As you can see with our data, the majority of the responses we collected show that college students around the country feel a low sense of academic motivation during the current pandemic. For many, ...

Wondering why you have more trouble focusing on new things as you age? A recent study by MIT helps explain why motivation decreases as age increases.

What is it that makes us feel good about ourselves? And what motivates us to do something, regardless of whether it is important or not?

Psychology Prof. Joshua Berke, one of the study’s authors, and Arif Hamid, a neuroscience doctoral student and lead author of the study, point to a link between dopamine, a reward chemical in the ...