In this study we examined the interrelationship among extrinsic rewards and achievement goals (including a work-avoidance goal), competence beliefs, and task values associated with health-enhancing running tasks over a school year. A group of elementary school students (n = 119) from a program that promoted running for running’s sake and another (n = 88) from a program that promoted running thr...

Search Institute developed the REACH Framework and Survey in response to growing interest among education practitioners and leaders in understanding the role of motivation and related social-emotional factors in academic motivation and persistence. This resource builds on diverse bodies of research by many scholars to create and test a multi-dimensional model of student motivation and persevera...

background: increasing cost of cancer in the world and particularly in developing countries, postulates need for public participation in cancer control activities, including prevention, treatment and supportive care. we studied role of different factors on the success of advertising through short message services (sms) for public donations for cancer control activities. materials and methods: b...

aims: although several studies have confirmed the validity and the strength of the student-centered approach and most training centeres have put it as the heading of their agenda, there are still problems in the method of implementation, increasing the need for further research to review the mode of implementation. in this regard, the present study has been conducted to investigate students’ an...

There is general agreement that both motivation and cognitive control play critical roles in shaping goal-directed behavior, but only recently has scientific interest focused around the question of motivation–control interactions. Here we briefly survey this literature, organizing contemporary findings around three issues: (1) whether motivation preferentially impacts cognitive control processe...

For future intrinsically motivated agents to combine multiple intrinsic motivation or behavioural components, there is a need to identify fundamental units of motivation models that can be reused and combined to produce more complex agents. This chapter reviews three existing models of intrinsic motivation, novelty, interest and competence-seeking motivation, that are based on the neural networ...

The purpose of this study was to test a motivational model of the coach-athlete relationship, based on self-determination theory and on the hierarchical model of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The sample comprised of 608 athletes (ages of 12-17 years) completed the following measures: interest in athlete's input, praise for autonomous behavior, perceived autonomy, intrinsic motivation, and...

This study seeks to increase intrinsic reading motivation by using situational interest encourage the development of long-term individual motivation. Stimulating tasks are used interest. Simultaneously, researcher provides books on topic stimulating satisfy curiosity arising from these tasks. Students who have high task stimulation show an in comprehension after controlling for initial comprehe...

A notice appeared in the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal of February 1986 proposing "the formation of a new society with an interest in the History of Medicine". The proposers "wished to see a small group, all of whom would be willing to give a paper from time to time", so that members would be stimulated to research their special interests; and instead of relying on invited speakers with ex...

This paper is concerned with the motivation of design agents to promote the exploration of design spaces. A general form of motivation common to designers is a curiosity to discover interesting designs. This paper presents computational models of interest and curiosity based on the detection of novelty. We illustrate the behaviour of our model of interest in emergent properties of a design and ...