What other factors are important to encourage students work hard?

Question

Setting challenging but attainable goals are important to encourage people to improve their work performance. Assume that your teacher has just said:

“To encourage you to perform better in this class, I would like you to do 15 slides for the final presentation, based on at least 20 sources of research reference.”

In this case, what other factors are important to encourage students work hard? Explain.

Answer 1

I do not believe that setting challenging but attainable goals encourages people to improve their work performance.  It only increases the amount of work required by the goal setter.

Goal setting measures the abilities of those that are interested.

To encourage people you have to get them interested and keep them interested.  If they have no real interest, then performance will be poor regardless of the amount of work required.

One could become encouraged to a better job by seeing a poor job and realizing they could do better.  

In this case bringing the class to a point where they see how good a presentation can be if it has 20 slides and 25-30 reference sources would be encouraging them that 15 slides and 20 sources is not unreasonable for a good presentation.

Answer 2

I usually think to myself, do I want to make $50 a day, or $50 an hour?

Answer 3

im a student so ways of making me work hard would be:

- a good role model teacher

they will want to work to impress you

- rewards for getting stuff correct

reminding them in the end they will be the winners if they work hard

- pep talks telling everyone how intelligent they are

so they dont lose enthusiasm and they know they can achieve

- making them feel guilty for not working hard

so they do not want to disappoint you

- reminding them that the harder they work the more money they will have

hope that helps :)