How can a teacher encourage her students to be intrinsically motivated towards learning for the sake of learning?

Options

A. By giving competitive tests
B. By supporting them in setting individual goals and their mastery
C. By offering tangible rewards such as toffees
D. By inducing anxiety and fear

Answer

B

Explanation

A teacher can encourage her students to be intrinsically motivated towards learning for the sake of learning by supporting them in setting individual goals and their mastery. As Malone and Lepper define activities as intrinsically motivating if people engage in it for its own sake, rather than in order to receive some external reward or avoid some external punishment. We use the words fun, interesting, captivating, enjoyable and intrinsically motivating all more or less interchangeably to describe such activities".