{"id":2271,"date":"2017-08-16T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2017-12-08T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T13:58:08","slug":"promoting-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/promoting-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Motivation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over at 3 Star Learning Experiences, Kirschner and Neelan are skeptical<\/a> about research into academic motivation.<\/p>\n

In essence, they argue that defining motivation can be quite a trick, and measuring it even more so. If we struggle to define and measure something, it’s hard to be scientifically thoughtful (and accurate) about it.<\/p>\n

As a result, we tend to discuss vague things like “student engagement”: it sounds good (who could be opposed to “student engagement”?), but it’s hard to know if behavior that looks like “engagement” reliably promotes learning.<\/p>\n

I share much of their concern about this part of our field. In fact, I find Dweck’s work on Mindset, and Steele’s work on Stereotype Threat, so interesting because they have found motivational topics that can be both defined and measured.<\/p>\n

Like Kirschner and Neelen, I’ll be more motivated to explore this field when more of it can cross these\u00a0essential thresholds.<\/p>\n

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Over at 3 Star Learning Experiences, Kirschner and Neelan are skeptical about research into academic motivation. In essence, they argue that defining motivation can be quite a trick, and measuring it even more so. If we struggle to define and measure something, it’s hard to be scientifically thoughtful (and accurate) about it. As a result, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24,19],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-motivation","tag-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/2274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}