High school students tend to get more motivated over time

Published on March 1, 2021

Parents may fear that if their high school student isn’t motivated to do well in classes, there’s nothing that will change that. But a new study that followed more than 1,600 students over two years found that students’ academic motivation often did change – and usually for the better. Results showed that increasing students’ sense of ‘belongingness’ in school was one key way of increasing academic motivation.

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