Sunday, 16 June 2013

motivation

A quote from a link in nanopolitan
" students put in more effort, but the effort was not effective at producing test scores given their lack of knowledge of how to translate effort into output," Fryer said."
This was a study to see if motivational messages improved student performance.

This is what I have observed in my students too. I can make them see that they need to improve performance, but it is very difficult for them to find out actually how to do that. One can give advice   ad nauseam, but it doesn't work. How each person does something has to come from inside him, it cannot be taught.




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