Primer: Motivational Interventions
2020
Motivational interventions are strategies that increase student motivation to learn or that remove barriers to learning. This primer from Brown University's Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning walks through a menu of evidence-based approaches that educators may want to incorporate in their classrooms to support all students, but especially students from historically underrepresented groups.
Though it is not an exhaustive list of motivational theories, this primer helpfully outlines the pedagogical approach and the challenge it addresses. It briefly summarizes the theory underlying the approach and the evidence supporting its effectiveness. Some of the approaches covered include facilitating self-affirmation, reframing critical feedback, and increasing curricular transparency.
Primer: Motivational Interventions
Source:
Wright M. Motivational Interventions. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University. https://www.brown.edu/sheridan/sites/sheridan/files/docs/Motivational%20Interventions%20%281%29.pdf.