The present research complements extant variable-centered research that focused on the dimensions of autonomous and controlled motivation through adoption of a person-centered approach for ...identifying motivational profiles. Both in high school students (Study 1) and college students (Study 2), a cluster analysis revealed 4 motivational profiles: a good quality motivation group (i.e., high autonomous, low controlled); a poor quality motivation group (i.e., low autonomous, high controlled); a low quantity motivation group (i.e., low autonomous, low controlled); and a high quantity motivation group (i.e., high autonomous, high controlled). To compare the 4 groups, the authors derived predictions from qualitative and quantitative perspectives on motivation. Findings generally favored the qualitative perspective; compared with the other groups, the good quality motivation group displayed the most optimal learning pattern and scored highest on perceived need-supportive teaching. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.
Measuring students’ reading motivation is a common practice in literacy classrooms, and results often inform instruction. This mixed‐methods study problematizes this practice, raising tensions ...between how reading motivation is measured and its enactment in a reading class. Key tensions include reading motivation as competition versus a collective endeavor, reading motivation emphasizing teacher‐directed learning versus student‐led learning, and reading motivation valuing texts as windows versus mirrors. The author suggests that teachers should take a critical lens to reading motivation measurement tools before using them.
Teach Yourself How to Learn McGuire, Saundra Yancy; McGuire, Stephanie
2018, 2023-07-03, 2018-01-31, 2018-01-16
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Following up on her acclaimed Teach Students How to Learn, that describes teaching strategies to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success, Saundra McGuire here presents these ..."secrets" direct to students.
Her message is that "Any student can use simple, straightforward strategies to start making A's in their courses and enjoy a lifetime of deep, effective learning."
Beginning with explaining how expectations about learning, and the study efforts required, differ between college and secondary school, the author introduces her readers, through the concept of metacognition, to the importance and powerful consequences of understanding themselves as learners. This framework and the recommended strategies that support it are useful for anyone moving on to a more advanced stage of education, so this book also has an intended audience of students preparing to go to high school, graduate school, or professional school.
In a conversational tone, and liberally illustrated by anecdotes of past students, the author combines introducing readers to concepts like Bloom's Taxonomy (to illuminate the difference between studying and learning), fixed and growth mindsets, as well as to what brain science has to tell us about rest, nutrition and exercise, together with such highly specific learning strategies as how to read a textbook, manage their time and take tests.
With engaging exercises and thought-provoking reflections, this book is an ideal motivational and practical text for study skills and first year experience courses.
An analysis of motivational aspects is considered important to understand an entrepreneurs mindset and proclivity to undertake some challenging venture and flourish in the business world. In this ...context, this paper is based on a sample of 60 firms in a brassware cluster in Nabadwip region in West Bengal, India. The objectives are to (a) analyse the rankings of various items of entrepreneurial motivation and focus of their reliability, (b) find a correlation between motivation and profitability indices, and (c) explain the variation in enterprise profitability by the different motivation sub-indices. Cronbach’s alpha test is applied for finding the reliability of motivational items. Two-stage principal component technique is used for deriving motivation sub-indices and total motivation index; whereas, the regression analysis explains the variation in enterprise profitability. The findings involve consistency in motivational items, significantly correlated profitability with motivation index, and significant variation in enterprise profitability explained by most of the motivational sub-indices. However, the enterprise owners are facing the problems of credit, marketing, and lack of skilled labour. The government should take measures for providing short-term loan based on their performance. Further, active steps are required for opening some local training schools, arranging workshops, launching awareness generating programmes through drama or posters, etc.
Is Virtual Citizen Science A Game? Simperl, Elena; Reeves, Neal; Phethean, Chris ...
ACM transactions on social computing,
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The use of game elements within virtual citizen science is increasingly common, promising to bring increased user activity, motivation, and engagement to large-scale scientific projects. However, ...there is an ongoing debate about whether or not gamifying systems such as these is actually an effective means by which to increase motivation and engagement in the long term. While gamification itself is receiving a large amount of attention, there has been little beyond individual studies to assess its suitability or success for citizen science; similarly, while frameworks exist for assessing citizen science performance, they tend to lack any appreciation of the effects that game elements might have had. We therefore review the literature to determine what the trends are regarding the performance of particular game elements or characteristics in citizen science, and survey existing projects to assess how popular different game features are. Investigating this phenomenon further, we then present the results of a series of interviews carried out with the EyeWire citizen science project team to understand more about how gamification elements are introduced, monitored, and assessed in a live project. Our findings suggest that projects use a range of game elements with points and leaderboards the most popular, particularly in projects that describe themselves as “games.” Currently, gamification appears to be effective in citizen science for maintaining engagement with existing communities, but shows limited impact for attracting new players.
In the context of the digitalization of the economy, the key driver for increasing the efficiency of the high-tech industry is the development of human resources. The purpose of the study is to ...determine the conceptual foundations of the personnel motivation system of high-tech enterprises in Iran. Based on the goal set, a number of tasks were solved. The components of the motivation system are described: subjects and objects of management, mechanisms and processes of management on the example of the Iranian company NOSA. The concept of “high technology” has been clarified, the criteria for a high-tech enterprise have been defined: a high share of companies’ costs for R&D (research and development work). The scientific novelty of the work lies in the construction of a conceptual scheme for motivating the personnel of high-tech enterprises. On the basis of empirical research, the needs of the employees of the Iranian company NOSA are determined. The presented tools: survey, questioning, testing, observation allow the head of the enterprise to determine the motives and needs of employees and, on their basis, develop or adjust the most effective system of personnel motivation in the enterprise. The object of the study is the personnel motivation system of the Iranian company NOSA. The subject is the organizational and economic aspects of motivating personnel in the high-tech sector in the context of the digitalization of the economy. The provisions outlined in the article make it possible to comprehensively present the conceptual foundations of personnel motivation systems, including those in high-tech industries.
The paper analyses the means of lexical enrichment from the viewpoint of a
theory of lexical motivation (TLM). After introductory notes, the
methodological background (basic principles of TLM) is ...explained (section
2). Consequently, in section 3, a hierarchy of related concepts is
introduced, namely, a three-tiered set of oppositions: (1) imitation
nomination - lexical nomination, (2) intralinguistic nomination - cross-
-linguistic nomination, (3) intralexemic nomination - interlexemic
nomination. In accordance with that, the following types of lexical
motivation are described: phonological motivation, word-formation
motivation, morphological motivation, syntactic motivation, abbreviation
motivation, semantic motivation, cross-linguistic (contact) motivation.
These types represent particular means of lexical enrichment traditionally
referred to as word formation, conversion, borrowing, clipping, etc.
Moreover, in section 4 it is pointed out that these types of motivation are
interrelated. This fact is reflected in the concept of motivational
relatedness, which also applies to nomination processes. Nomination
relatedness can be characterized as cooperation or determination. This is
closely related to the concept of polymotivation, i.e., an alternative
interpretation of nomination processes.
Motivation is a process that drives individuals forward. Educators must be aware of the continuum of motivation and appropriately provide opportunities for student engagement, learning, and growth. ...This 2-page document discusses how to motivate learners. Written by Isabella Damiani, Andrew Thoron, and J. C. Bunch and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, May 2018. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc305
The emergence of online environments has changed the landscape of educational learning. Some students thrive in this learning environment, but others become amotivated and disengaged. Drawing on ...self-determination theory, we report the findings of a study of 574 undergraduate business students at an Australian higher education institution on their attitude toward online learning, and its impact on their motivation and educational engagement. Data was collected via an e-mail survey and analysed using structural equation modelling and the Hayes’ bootstrapping method. The results of the study were mixed. Attitude to online learning mediated the relationships of both intrinsic motivation to know and extrinsic motivation with engagement, indicating that the design of online learning environments can play a role in enhancing learning experiences. However, attitude to online learning was not found to mediate the intrinsic motivation to accomplish and engagement relationship. A negative mediation effect was partially supported between amotivation and engagement, with study mode found as a moderated mediator to this effect, being stronger and significant for online students as opposed to on-campus students. These results have implications for how students can be engaged online, and the need for educators to design online learning environments that support the learning experience for all students.
This research examined how motivation (perceived control, intrinsic motivation, and extrinsic motivation), cognitive learning strategies (deep and surface strategies), and intelligence jointly ...predict long-term growth in students' mathematics achievement over 5 years. Using longitudinal data from six annual waves (Grades 5 through 10; M
age
= 11.7 years at baseline; N = 3,530), latent growth curve modeling was employed to analyze growth in achievement. Results showed that the initial level of achievement was strongly related to intelligence, with motivation and cognitive strategies explaining additional variance. In contrast, intelligence had no relation with the growth of achievement over years, whereas motivation and learning strategies were predictors of growth. These findings highlight the importance of motivation and learning strategies in facilitating adolescents' development of mathematical competencies.
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