Grades, recognition or parental approval can inspire an extrinsically motivated student.
Extrinsically motivated behaviours carried out in anticipation of a reward from outside. Typical extrinsic rewards are money, prizes, grades, and certain types of positive feedback.
Intinsically motivated activities are ones for which there is no apparent reward except the activity itself.
An intrinsically motivated student learns for the pleasure of learning, has an educational plan, usually can see the big picture more easily and has various cognitive and organizational strategies already in place to enhance learning.
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