Educational success – A pathway to happiness and well-being? The strong emphasis on succeeding in education through high grades, test[…]
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Rewards affect feelings towards learning and motivation
Rewards affect feelings towards learning and motivation Rewards are extrinsic motivators (Hidi, 2015). They change the reason for doing a[…]
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Rewards in education – Who benefits?
What a fascinating thing. Total control of a living organism! – B.F.Skinner (1983) Rewards in education – Who benefits? Some[…]
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What motivates teachers?
What motivates teachers In studies by Watt and Richardson (2007, 2008) that authors investigated the initial motivation of individual intending[…]
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How do teachers stay motivated?
How do teachers stay motivated? Even wondered how a teacher stays motivated or how you motivate yourself to continue teaching?[…]
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Deliberate or self-determined: Motivation for music student practice
Deliberate or self-determined: Motivation for music student practice Deliberate or self-determined: Motivation for music student practice. Ever wondered how[…]
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Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children
Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children Kirschner & Tomasello, (2010) found in a study of 4[…]
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Attributions for success
Attributions for success Rosevear (2003) investigates student motivation for music in schools through the framework of Attribution Theory (Weiner, 1986).[…]
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Motivation to study Music in Australian Schools
Motivation to study Music in Australian Schools This study (McPherson, et al., 2015) extended a prior nine nation study (McPherson[…]
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Mastery Goals in Music
Mastery Goals in Music Hruska (2011) advocates for the use of mastery goals to increase music student motivation. He explains[…]
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