Motivation to learn is affected by a student’s self-efficacy, goal orientation, locus of control and perceived task difficulty. In the classroom, teachers know how to motivate their students and how to exploit this knowledge to adapt or optimize their instruction when a student shows signs of demotivation. In on-line learning environments it is much more difficult to assess the level of motivat...

Learners sometimes have incoherent and fragmented intuitive prior knowledge that is (partly) "incompatible" with the to-be-learned contents. Such knowledge in pieces can cause conceptual disorientation and cognitive overload while learning. We hypothesized that a pre-training intervention providing a generalized schema as a structuring framework for such knowledge in pieces would support (re)or...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate the pursuit of achievement goals in medical students and to assess the relationship between achievement goals, learning strategy, and motivation. METHODS Two hundred seventy freshman and sophomore premedical students and sophomore medical school students participated in this study, which used the Achievement Goals Scale and the Self-Regulate...

Abstract A condition where a person feels the absence of motivation is acknowledged as demotivation. demotivated worker, for instance, can cause loss company because it requires proper management from them to produce high productivity and quality yield. Due demotivation, they will not feel responsible towards their job maintaining crops. Hence avoid demotivation workers, crucial find out root c...

OBJECTIVES Social media is increasingly being used in conjunction with health information technology (health IT). The objective of this paper is to identify some of the undesirable outcomes that arise from this integration and to suggest solutions to these problems. METHODOLOGY After a discussion with experts to elicit the topics that should be included in the survey, we performed a narrative...

Students with School Refusal Behaviour (SRB) are a diverse group, often associated negative academic repercussions (e.g., low performance, learning difficulties or demotivation). The aims of this research were: 1) to identify school refusal behaviour profiles based on and high scores the four functional conditions assessed by Assessment Scale-Revised (SRAS-R) 2) examine relationship between SRB...

Strongwomen and McGyvers. On the Determinants of Demotivation among Employees Polish Cultural Centres The article deals with topic demotivation staff cultural centres. aim paper is to explore phenomenon from a humanist perspective. first part describes definitions reasons it occurs. research results were then presented. answers obtained through an online questionnaire interviews show that occur...