eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities. When done effectively, gamified learning can motivate even the most reluctant readers.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2022

The tools developed for this study draw on principles of behavioral economics, motivation theory and learning cognition theory to help students want to improve and connect with teachers.

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Gamification Failure Blended Learning Motivation 257

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Like most articles that synthesize the results of many studies, it’s long, detailed, and liberally peppered with educational jargon.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Like most articles that synthesize the results of many studies, it’s long, detailed, and liberally peppered with educational jargon.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 108

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content. Instead of investing the time and effort required to study and prepare, they may turn to AI or other shortcuts to complete the task quickly.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

According to a McKinsey study , companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on executive teams are 25 percent more likely to have above-average profitability. Embracing setbacks as vital parts of the process, rather than as failures, enables leaders to cultivate the mindset needed to lead with courage and optimism.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Jobs to be done hinges on the fact that consumers “hire” products and services to do a specific job in their lives, and that they are motivated to do so by particular circumstances. And over the years, we’ve also made our best guesses at some of K–12 students’ key jobs, particularly drawing on research on what motivates younger students.

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Schools Students Motivation Failure 251

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. In their study, they found that perceived social support among students promoted university adjustment and academic performance. Abdullah et al.

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. In their study, they found that perceived social support among students promoted university adjustment and academic performance. Abdullah et al.

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. When my class, who didn’t see themselves as STEAM teachers, had the freedom to tinker without a fear of failure, they became far more eager (and better equipped) to teach those concepts in their own future classrooms.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

As a developmental psychologist and researcher who studies educator well-being at Committee for Children , a global nonprofit focused on social-emotional learning and development, I’m well-acquainted with the myriad of challenges educators face. Expecting perfection of ourselves can result in feelings of failure or inadequacy.

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Education Motivation Failure Attention 208

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Proponents say the model improves student outcomes by encouraging more interaction among students and professors, and many studies have been conducted to measure the efficacy of the approach. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

It had been more than a year and a half since she had studied Mesopotamia, yet she was able to pull it out of memory without a second thought. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. Many studies had been conducted in university labs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

He teaches 7th grade social studies in Highland Park, Illinois. What motivates you, both as a teacher and an entrepreneur? That really motivates me to continue. Failure also motivates me. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best. Chris Hull is a busy guy. He also helps run.

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Failure Motivation Writing Culture 163

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

If reading skills aren’t developed by around fourth grade, when education begins to focus on more complex and higher-order thinking skills, studies have shown that students rarely catch up with their peers to become fluent readers. Numerous studies also point to the benefit of audiobooks as a remedy for student disengagement with reading.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 165

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

But as Eyler warns readers at the outset, he’s not a scientist himself, but a humanist with a PhD in medieval studies. Some of it is not necessarily breaking a code or unlocking a secret, as it is there’s information and studies that have occurred in widely disparate disciplines that very rarely talk to each other.

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Art Science Teaching Failure 167

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

These students appeared motivated to learna direct contrast to the disengagement narrative that permeates todays education circles. Academics demands coupled with the pull of daily life can negatively tip the balance of student outcomes, siphoning away student motivation, according to educational scholar Howard McClusky.

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Motivation Students Instructors Failure 64

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S., The takeaway?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

An Education Week survey found that the vast majority of educators believe that a growth-oriented mindset can help improve students’ motivation, commitment and engagement in learning. But the study found that applying those ideas to practice, and helping students shift their mindset around learning, remains an elusive challenge.

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Beliefs Failure Feedback Math 161

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As part of a long-term study on the school, a team of researchers at NYU, led by Richard Arum, decided to look at other metrics, including a performance-based test called the College and Work Readiness Assessment, which is designed to measure various problem solving and reasoning skills. The studies that showed the most success (i.e.,

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

I teach in a college and career pathway program for the visual and performing arts in which students spend half of their school day studying the arts at an advanced level, while connecting their knowledge from core classes through multidisciplinary projects. They choose to be part of an intentional community that values the arts.

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Art Education Multidisciplinary Students 218

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

These students appeared motivated to learna direct contrast to the disengagement narrative that permeates todays education circles. Academics demands coupled with the pull of daily life can negatively tip the balance of student outcomes, siphoning away student motivation, according to educational scholar Howard McClusky.

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Motivation Students Instructors Failure 53

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2017

In her early teaching years, Wanny Hersey learned how hands-on projects—which would eventually become known as “making”— could engage and motivate her English students like nothing she’d seen before. In the rapid prototyping step, students quickly try things out in order to find out what works and learn from failures.

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Education Failure Art Grades 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

A new case study by Entangled Solutions illustrates how that is unfolding at Arcadia Unified School District in California, which serves 9,500 students across its 11 schools. The mantra “learn from failure” turned out to be particularly important, although challenging to implement. Learning models eat education software for breakfast.

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Failure Blended Learning Critical Thinking Middle School 151

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

Rather than lower standards, experts say, colleges need to prepare for a new type of student one who may not have time to complete every reading or attend every study session, but is still valuable and deserving of a quality education. As more low income and first generation students enroll, this gap has only widened.

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Students Math Writing Skills 174

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? You are so intelligent,” led to decreased motivation to undertake challenging tasks.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Failure to appreciate these points will result in personalized learning products more likely to hinder than help students. make suboptimal decisions about when/where/how often to study. Keeping learners motivated and confident when faced with these cognitive challenges means connecting with learners on a personal level.

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Education Evaluation Essay Failure 158

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2018

The promise is that such small nudges can motivate recipients to get back on track and keep them from dropping out. Milliron stressed that the early-warning systems have worked at some colleges his company studied. But in some cases such efforts actually cause more harm than good. And she left. And you can understand that.”

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Failure Ethics Motivation Attention 145

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Effective study habits, a positive mindset, and time management skills must be added to the mixture, and do not forget to sprinkle a proactive attitude on top to improve academic performance and increase the overall college experience. Develop effective study habits Developing effective study habits is crucial for academic success.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

Even when it happens individually, having a supporting community can provide learners with the motivation and opportunities for applying and connecting knowledge. Q2: For our new-trad students who are often first gen, hearing our human stories of failure and challenge is critical to building trust. We have to gain trust.”.

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Failure Instructors Discussions Culture 137

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Effective study habits, a positive mindset, and time management skills must be added to the mixture, and do not forget to sprinkle a proactive attitude on top to improve academic performance and increase the overall college experience. Develop effective study habits Developing effective study habits is crucial for academic success.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 97

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. However, John was especially motivated to graduate so that he could get a well-paying job and be able to live on his own. A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class.

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Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

12 The reviews find that many studies lack scientific rigor. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse for literacy does not contain any study that has a significant positive effect on broad reading achievement for this group. Reading First Impact Study Final Report Executive Summary (NCEE 2009-4039).

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Disabilities Learning Disabilities Evaluation Language 282

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Good video games are incredibly effective at capturing our attention, converting extrinsic rewards into intrinsic motivation, and creating meaningful experiences. Another study concluded that children in elementary school who played five or more hours of games a week performed better socially and academically than peers who did not.

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Gamification Learning Culture Students 153

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

What motivates them–what drives them to live in this world? This is great motivation for critical thinking and problem solving. Make failure fun. You’ll put long hours in researching, studying, managing, and few will thank you. How students answer this question is always interesting. Tell me stuff about them.

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