... as de-motivators, but if satisfactory, their motivational affect is limited without motivators. Robert Harris furthermore, emphasised that 'student motivation' rationally has to do with students' desire to participate in the learning process in the academic literature called "some ideas for motivating students". The literature illustrated that many students' do poorly on assignments or in participation because they do not understand what to do or why they should do it. Further more, it argues that teachers should spend more time explaining why they teach, and why specific topic or approach or activity is vital and worthwhile. In the process, it also highlights several theories of motivation, such as; Fredrick Herzberg's two-factory theory (i.e. students' who do not yet have powerful intrinsic motivation to learn can be helped by extrinsic motivators in the form of rewards), and McClelland's theory of needs (i.e. it indicated that students' were driven to achievement, power, and affiliation ...

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