What Underachieving Middle School Students Believe Motivates them to Learn

Chapter 1: The Challenge to Educate Everyone Chapter 2: A Review of Literature Chapter 3: Methods Chapter 4: The Results Chapter 5: Discussion      An Emerging Theory      A Gap in Schools        Enough Teachers?        Not Far Enough        Missing Motivators        Risks      Getting in the Way?      A Final Thought References Appendixes Biography

A Gap In Schools Providing for Motivation Another thread running throughout the results of both the current and pilot studies was of schools not providing for motivation. This section explores how not enough teachers are using the motivators the students have described, how some teachers were not very effective with those motivators, how other motivators were largely missing, and the dangers of not providing motivating instruction for students.

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