• Earn higher grades and achievement test scores, on average than extrinsically-motivated students
• Employ "strategies that demand more effort and that enable them to process
information more deeply"
• Are more likely to feel confident about their ability to learn new material
• Use "more logical information-gathering and decision-making strategies" than
do extrinsically-motivated students
• Are more likely to engage in "tasks that are moderately challenging, whereas
extrinsically oriented students gravitate toward tasks that are low in degree of
difficulty"
• Are more likely to persist with and complete assigned tasks
• Retain information and concepts longer, and are less likely to need remedial
courses and review
• Are more likely to be lifelong learners, continuing to educate themselves outside
the formal school setti