If you’ve been falling short of some major goal, it might not be your effort or motivation; it could be that you’ve set the wrong kind of goal. There are two types of goals; performance goals and ...

One theory contrasts implicit and explicit motivation. When we are implicitly motivated, we learn because we find the subject fascinating, because we want to achieve mastery of the subject or because ...

For students who have fallen years behind in math and reading, recovering that lost academic ground is a marathon, not a sprint. But it doesn’t hurt to pick up the pace. A new study of more than 5 ...

Abstract: Students don’t always learn what it is that we intend to teach them. In several science departments, faculty are addressing this gap by collaboratively deciding on just what it is that they ...

Institutional Graduate Learning Goals for Doctoral Programs All of the above Institutional Graduate Learning Goals for Masters Programs, with the addition of: Research: Conduct independent research ...