h a view toward identifying intervention strategies aimed at enabling students to address motivation-related issue fronts in a way that optimizes their decision-making and coping skills and improves forecasts of their possible lines of development.
Student motivation has been an area of educational research for decades. The phrase is often used in close proximity to the phrase at-risk to designate the problems and challenges associated with the failure of schools to motivate and/or the failure of students to become motivated. An unmotivated student is deemed to be at risk for academic and career--hence social, economic, and psychological--failure. The most sharply experienced academic failure is that of dropping out of school. According to a study done for the U.S. Department of Education, the average national drop rate is nearly 11%, accounting for 3.8 million persons between ages 16 and 24. Anyone who considers that figure encouragingly low, given the estimated U.S. population at 291,121,975 (Yax, 2003), should realize that t
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