Motivation is the driving force according to Dornyei (2001) states that motivation stimulates the learners to learn. It is the “state of morale; extent of readiness or willingness”. Motivation has been shown to positively influence study strategy, academic performance, adjustment and well-being in students in domains of education (Vansteenkiste et al. 2005). Studying motivation particularly in science education is important because science education is different from general education in several aspects, some of them being high intensity of study, the requirement to carry out practical work along with study and the need to follow a highly specifically defined path to be able to qualify to practice as doctors or
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Motivation is important because it is what causes us to actively look for resources to guarantee our success. Motivation may come from your own interest, or it may come out of necessity. There are two types of motivations i.e. intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is that kind of motivation occurs when you are internally motivated to do something because you believe that it is important or because you enjoy doing it. Students with this kind of motivation will be happy and excited to do their homework because they find it an exciting challenge, even though they might not receive any reward or compensation. In order to improve this kind of motivation, it’s possible to make abstract material more concrete and put it in context. Extrinsic motivation is that when a student wants to study or learn because of external factors, like punishment or reward. However, it’s been shown that punishment is more harmful than helpful, and that rewards have the potential to create a type of dependency. For this reason, it’s best to give less and less rewards while building intrinsic …show more content…
If there are no examinations, they won’t study at home at any time. They would only focus on playing play stations, Xbox game, Wii games at all the time except their school hours. Playing games every time or watching TV all the time definitely diminish the knowledge of school children. So end of the day their brain have full of TV shows and Games names instead of knowledge for their future job. In this case, exams are essential in order to regulate school students and make them concentrate on studies at home. Exams also create competition among the individuals, which push them to acquire more knowledge. It also pushes the competitors to give their best. In the current world, competition is in everywhere. If an individual works hard and maintaining the good grades, he/she will get scholarships and chances for studying at prestigious institutes around the world. Those best institutes and universities will make them get a good job that will ultimately result in having bright future and luxurious lifestyle. Basically, only college and university students get scholarships and follow their higher studies in the best universities. But nowadays this scholarship scenario comes in schools as well. Even a school student can get the scholarship and follow their studies abroad. So having exams among school students can help to pick up the few intelligent and provide them with certain kind of
Motivation is important because it is what causes us to actively look for resources to guarantee our success. Motivation may come from your own interest, or it may come out of necessity. There are two types of motivations i.e. intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is that kind of motivation occurs when you are internally motivated to do something because you believe that it is important or because you enjoy doing it. Students with this kind of motivation will be happy and excited to do their homework because they find it an exciting challenge, even though they might not receive any reward or compensation. In order to improve this kind of motivation, it’s possible to make abstract material more concrete and put it in context. Extrinsic motivation is that when a student wants to study or learn because of external factors, like punishment or reward. However, it’s been shown that punishment is more harmful than helpful, and that rewards have the potential to create a type of dependency. For this reason, it’s best to give less and less rewards while building intrinsic …show more content…
If there are no examinations, they won’t study at home at any time. They would only focus on playing play stations, Xbox game, Wii games at all the time except their school hours. Playing games every time or watching TV all the time definitely diminish the knowledge of school children. So end of the day their brain have full of TV shows and Games names instead of knowledge for their future job. In this case, exams are essential in order to regulate school students and make them concentrate on studies at home. Exams also create competition among the individuals, which push them to acquire more knowledge. It also pushes the competitors to give their best. In the current world, competition is in everywhere. If an individual works hard and maintaining the good grades, he/she will get scholarships and chances for studying at prestigious institutes around the world. Those best institutes and universities will make them get a good job that will ultimately result in having bright future and luxurious lifestyle. Basically, only college and university students get scholarships and follow their higher studies in the best universities. But nowadays this scholarship scenario comes in schools as well. Even a school student can get the scholarship and follow their studies abroad. So having exams among school students can help to pick up the few intelligent and provide them with certain kind of