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Motivation

Known as: Motive, motivations 
Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives… 
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2014
2014
Independent learning skills, self-determination theory and psychological well-being: strategies for supporting the first year university experience
The purpose of this article is to explain why the first year in higher education experience of Australian tertiary students can… 
2012
2012
Students’ Academic Motivations in Allied Health Classes
Purpose: Human Anatomy & Physiology [HAP] courses are considered “difficult” by both faculty and students, and many students fail… 
Review
2009
Review
2009
Reading Preferences among Different Generations: A Study of Attitudes and Choices in Singapore
A survey of reading habits of a selected group of readers between the ages of 28 and 43 in Singapore indicated that they tended… 
2009
2009
Plain and Twisted Adjoints of Well-Formed Words
This paper studies the mathematical basis for a new study of modes of well-formed (WF) scales, and presents a new… 
2001
2001
Tearing Up Interfaces
This paper is a sequel to Instrument Semiotics that presents an analysis of multimedia interfaces in the domain of maritime… 
2000
2000
An Economy Grid Architecture for Service-Oriented Grid Computing
Computational Grids are a promising platform for executing large-scale resource intensive applications. However, resource… 
1993
1993
Leading indicators of CAD experience
Current interfaces and help facilities of CAD systems are not designed to respond to a user's performance. To develop such… 
1965
1965
Career anchorage: managerial mobility motivations.
Sociological theories of occupational mobility have incorporated two sets of assumptions about occupational aspiration. One… 
1962
1962
The creativity motive.
1960
1960
Partial and correlated reward in escape learning.
Previous studies (Campbell & Kraeling, 1953; Bower, Fowler, & Trapold, 1959) have demonstrated that magnitude of reinforcement…