SMN 006: Foster Learning Goals with These Evaluation Strategies Student Motivation Nation

The podcast devotes this month (episodes 005 – 008) to discussing how the goals your students adopt for their learning can affect their interest and motivation in class. In this episode, we discuss how learning goals can help foster student interest and motivation. Learning goals are the desire to work at class tasks for the purpose of learning or understanding course material. This episode gives teaching tweaks to your evaluation and grading strategies that can help encourage your students to adopt adaptive learning goals.