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Motivation and Tutoring in the Fight Against School Failure - A Case Study in Rabo de Peixe

2016; Volume: 7; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.20533/licej.2040.2589.2016.0314

2040-2589

Sandra Patrícia Pereira, Tereza Ventura,

Educational Games and Gamification

The action-research project that supports the present communication aims, through a Motivation Program implementation, to contribute to the understanding of the effect of motivation in students with a school record of failure background, integrated in classes with alternative school programs, its relevance to improve school results and the importance of the pedagogical relationship in the motivation for learning.It focused on 71 individuals in a total of 154, from Rabo de Peixe -Azores, 53.5% males and 46.5% females, between the ages of 10 and 17, with an age average of 11.6.43 of these students benefited from a mentoring program.It was shown that students integrated in Education Recovery Programs show motivation levels and school results below the average.It was also proven that the Motivation Program significantly improved the motivation and the academic performance and unequivocally minimized social, family, financial and cultural inequalities.The students considered as decisive for motivation and for success the investment in self-efficacy beliefs, the development of self-concept, the promotion of education through affection and the quality of the pedagogical relationship.