SMN 005: The Pitfalls of Performance Goals

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 the detrimental effects of performance goals, or the desire to work on academic tasks in order to do better than other students or to avoid doing worse than other students. We also give you teaching tricks to avoid encouraging your students to possess performance goals for their academic efforts.