Introduction, Importance, Definition, and Rationale
             Student motivation is a student's desire to participate in the learning process. It is the meaningfulness, value, and benefits that an academic task has to the learner. It is also defined as a student's drive from within which guides, activates, and continues a behavior over time. It is simply a student's willingness, need, desire, and compulsion to participate in, and be successful in the learning process.
             Motivation is the key to a student's school success and is the driving force behind successful learning. In order for a student to be motivated, they need to have a positive attitude towards learning. Many factors affect a student's motivation to learn, such as their interest in the subject, their fear of failure, why the information is useful to them, a general desire to achieve, their self-esteem, and self-confidence.
             There are two types of motivation. They are intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. Due to repeated failures, many learning disabled (LD) students lack intrinsic motivation, which is a student's desire to learn for the sake of learning. Intrinsic motivation is important for the student so that they may gain personal joy in learning new concepts. Since most LD students lack intrinsic motivation, parents, teachers, and schools must provide extrinsic motivation in order for learning disabled students to be successful in school. Extrinsic motivation is an almost tangible, if not, in fact, a truly tangible object that a student works toward. Extrinsic motivation is important for the student to gain parent and/or teacher approval, good grades, and rewards.
             Factors and Examples of Motivational Problems and Effects on Students
             Many students with learning disabilities lack motivation due to the fear of failure. This fear of failure is evident in daily school life when a student enters a classroom where the work is above their cognitive level. For ex...