Motivation in Academic Setting: Types and Techniques

This report discusses the types of motivation and techniques used in academic settings to motivate students to study and perform well. It also highlights the importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for students.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Motivation...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Motivation is an influential thing that enables a person to do task or activity in the most
effective manner. It is intrinsic and extrinsic in nature. From a student's point of view, students
are intrinsically influenced and motivated to study and learn when they comprehend that they
have a high degree of autonomy along with involve in an activity by their own and willingly,
instead they are being highly controlled (Brunstein and Heckhausen, 2018). In an academic
setting, teachers need to use different techniques and tools to motivate their students so that they
can study hard and perform towards their study as well as accomplish good grades in the exams.
In this assignment, the topic which is chosen is motivation.
TASK
Motivation
Motivation refers as a procedure that guides, initiates and maintains goal-oriented
behaviours. It allows a student to act, behave and taking initiative to reach the ultimate results
and goals. For teachers and tutors, a lack of motivation has been one of the most frustrating
hurdles to student's learning. Motivation supports students to perceive which results are
strengthening and which are punishing (Morling and Lee, 2017). Hence, it encourages a child or
learner to get better results and to avoid bad consequences. When students are motivated they are
able to attain their personal and professional goals. It can be use as a guide to self individually.
Types of motivation
 Intrinsic motivation: This is a kind of motivation in which a person or student willingly
do something for their joy and personal satisfaction and its is very rare in school or
organisation's context.
 Extrinsic motivation: This refers as the punishments or rewards to motivate or influence
students to study and perform for their high grades. It is commonly painted in teaching as
the opposition of good instruction (Rheinberg and Vollmeyer, 2018). It is true to a
certain extent as learning is parallel to exploration, the utilisation of punishments such as
extra home work, negative marking, loss of recess time and many more, whereas rewards
such as appreciation of work, handwritten notes, event tickets and much more.
Therefore, in an academic setting, the teachers and tutors can use different tools and
techniques of motivation to make students to learn sincerely and ensure that they do their

classwork, homework on time so that they do not lose their marks in examinations. They also
make plans and schedules for their students so that they can understand the requirement and
value of learning (Rheinberg, 2020). They also try to influence students by taking extra classes in
order to remove doubts and confusion in lessons.
CONCLUSION
It can be said from this report is that motivation can be intrinsic and extrinsic for
students. Teachers need to ensure that their students remain motivated and influenced towards
their study so that they earn good grades and marks in their assignment. They can exploit
different techniques such as appreciation of hard working student, removing recess time or game
activities so that students do not misbehave in the class or finish their work on time and much
more.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Brunstein, J. C. and Heckhausen, H., 2018. Achievement motivation. In Motivation and
action (pp. 221-304). Springer, Cham.
Morling, B. and Lee, J. M., 2017. Culture and motivation.
Rheinberg, F. and Vollmeyer, R., 2018. Motivation. Kohlhammer Verlag.
Rheinberg, F., 2020. Intrinsic motivation and flow. Motivation Science, 6(3), p.199.