Describe three suggestions teachers can follow to capitalize on the influence of goals to increase students' motivation to learn, and give an example of each

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Answer 1

Suggestions for capitalizing on the influence of goals to increase students' motivation to learn include the following: 1) Focus on mastery and a social-responsibility orientation, such as emphasizing effort and improvement and our need to support each other, and de-emphasizing grades and competition among students. 2) Create effective assessments, such as using higher-level items on quizzes and tests, which provides students with evidence their competence is increasing when they succeed, and contributes to a mastery goal orientation. 3) Encourage students to set and monitor goals. Effective goals are (a) specific, such as consuming only 1,200 calories a day, vs. losing weight; (b) near, such as the goal of burning 400 calories a day on an exercise machine rather than burning 5,000 calories a month on exercise machines; and