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05 May 09

Increasing Student Engagement and Motivation: From Time-on-task to homework: By Request... | October 2000

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Use extrinsic rewards sparingly
Promote mastery learning
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- Arouse students' curiosity about the topic being studied. Strong, Silver, and Robinson (1995) suggest using the "mystery" approach, in which students are presented with fragmentary or contradictory information about a subject and are then asked to examine available evidence to develop their own hypotheses.
- Design projects that allow students to share new knowledge with others.

12 Dec 08

Why Self-Discipline Is Overrated

While I readily admit that it’s good to be able to persevere at worthwhile tasks -- and that some students seem to lack this capacity -- I want to suggest that the concept is actually problematic in three fundamental ways. To inquire into what underlies

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