Achievement Grades Motivation 
eSchool News
MAY 20, 2025
a motivational reading program designed for third graders–but easily adaptable for other grades as well. Building a motivational reading program Inspired by research from Wigfield and Guthrie (2022) and Gambrell and Morrow (2015), we knew that motivation is critical to reading development. The One-Two-Three-Read!
Catlin Tucker
MAY 23, 2017
For the last two years, I’ve been moving farther away from conventional grades. I used to grade everything and dump hundreds of points into my digital gradebook over the course of a semester. When grades were due, my gradebook spit out a percentage for each student and that was the grade he/she received.
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eSchool News
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
The lack of motivation has contributed to lower academic performance and increased dropout rates. The percentage of students who “love” going to school plummets from 74 percent in third grade to 29 percent by 12th grade, and just 36 percent of middle and high school students feel they can develop their own ideas at school.
eSchool News
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
They’re being asked to create an environment conducive to academic achievement without face-to-face interaction with their students. Even before schools closed in the spring, teachers were already grappling with a crisis in student motivation. Student motivation is important because it can be directly linked to attainment.
eSchool News
MARCH 21, 2019
When students feel motivated, everything is better–grades, class engagement, standardized test scores, and determination. That’s why improving student motivation is at the top of many administrators’ to-do lists. What role, then, do schools and educators have in improving student motivation?
Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
One culprit is the mentality that, “If I don’t grade it, the students won’t do it.” First, I do not think grades are an effective long-term strategy for motivating most students. These “carrots” might work for a short period of time, but they are unlikely to be powerful long-term motivators.
eSchool News
AUGUST 24, 2023
Then, about a year into owning the car, an even worse issue came up that gave us major heart palpitations: the car would completely lose power and stall while climbing the freeway grade between our valley and the neighboring town where my wife works. Maybe we’re neglecting the ‘battery’ at the heart of education: student motivation.
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