Psychologists call this promotion motivation , and research shows that promotion-minded people are more energized by optimism and praise, more likely to embrace risk, seize opportunities, and excel at creativity and innovation.
Figuring out what is driving that trend, and reversing it, is a big motivation of Hammerschlag's research.
The research, called Motivation Matters, provided evidence to suggest that motivation is hampered by the frustration of perceived blocks to career development.
The CEP summary paper not only makes it clear that more attention must be paid to student motivation, it also provides research-based starting points for action.
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Upwards of 40 percent of high school students are chronically disengaged from school, according to a 2003 National Research Council report on motivation.
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There are professions, like university teaching and research, where a big part of the motivation is helping people and gaining respect in the community.
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The American Psychiatric Association (APA) and scores of individual psychiatrists have expressed support for permanently easing the restrictions on ECT devices, because they worry that manufacturers of ECT devices may lack the funds, time, or motivation to meet new FDA requirements (by conducting new research, for instance).
Research on procedural methods for narrative, behaviour, and motivation exist, they just haven't had the time and investment to develop into stable commercial systems.
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When deciding how to add social features, many of the app and device makers were influenced by the research of Stanford professor BJ Fogg, who studies behavioral motivation.
Math game developer Sokikon, for example, references U.S. Department of Education-funded research correlating its games to progress in test scores and motivation to learn math (up to 15% improvement in one Arizona classroom).
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Embedding these experiences in digital learning makes it far easier to scale the good experiences across a mastery-based system, which would build student motivation for and ownership over learning all of which the research says bolsters learning.
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But according to Pew, an American research organisation, only 7% of bloggers say their main motivation is to make money.
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More than a decade of research shows that when people experience a fit between their own motivation and the way they work, they are not only more effective, but they also find their work more interesting and engaging, and value it more.
The research by Ceop and the University of Birmingham suggested physical contact did not appear to be a motivation for offenders who sought to abuse children in this way.
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