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What effect does assessment have on learner motivation? Why?

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This posting helps discuss how to engage and motivate students in a classroom. How assessments can be beneficial to students and be negative towards student learning. The following solution discusses concepts such as competition between peers, the negative and positive effects of learners motivation and student's intelligence and brightness. The explanation is given in 322 words.

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Problem: What effect does assessment have on learner motivation? Why?

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Assessments can have to effects on students learning and their motivation in a classroom. It can affect the student positively and it can affect the student negatively.

Assessments are not always accurate indicators of a student's intelligence or brightness. Assessments that test a student's knowledge and comprehension of a subject can inhibit a student's motivation to learn. If a student has a learning ...

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