Questions To Guide Your Thinking About Motivation

The information and exercises in this module are designed to help you improve your motivation to succeed in college and to help you to be more effective and efficient in your studies. Your LASSI score on motivation gives you an idea about the degree to which you accept responsibility for performing the specific tasks required for success in college. Motivation addresses the degree to which you want to or are willing to complete the work necessary for you to reach your own academic and post-college goals.

Questions/Issues for you to think about as you complete this module:

• Are you clear about your goals?

• Are you successful in both setting and achieving your goals?

• Do you believe you can be a successful student?

• Do your beliefs about yourself and college help you to succeed, or do you have self-sabotaging beliefs?

• Do you think high achievement is more a matter of luck than effort?

• Do you think your academic abilities are something you were just born with or do you think that there are things you can do to help yourself earn better grades?