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Encouraging student motivation
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In this chapter we hope to have highlighted the importance of ascertaining how
motivated students are by the specific tasks set, and also of determining the kind of
motivation these tasks elicit. We have no ready panacea for solving the problems of
student motivation, but it seems reasonable to suggest that the learning context and
specifically the provision of high-quality feedback and the adoption of appropriate
assessment systems are at least part of the answer.
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