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Sjöberg, Joakim, and Oliver Reinhard. "Att engagera sig eller att inte engagera sig : En studie om vilka informationskanaler och motivationsfaktorer som påverkar studenters val gällande föreningsengagemang." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-45130.
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Both authors of this study have been involved in the School of Business at Umeå University Student Association (HHUS) and is due this discovery deficiencies and problems within the association. The pressure to engage in HHUS is compared with other financial organizations around the country very low. This led us to consider why this is the case. From experience we know that communication between the association and its members are not functioning optimally. Communication itself is essential for motivating students and for that motivation should be high for the students to experience good quality on the engagement. The purpose of this study is to identify lines of communication and motivational factors that affect students who are members of HHUS to get involved or not. By demonstrating and explaining any shortcomings of this study, we show how these deficiencies affect engagement in HHUS. In carrying out this study we have used the theories in communication, motivation and service quality. The study has been conducted in an objective manner with a positivistic approach. Through a deductive research approach with elements of induction, we start from theories in the above areas that concern our problem. Based on these theories, we have created a questionnaire that we distributed to all members of the HHUS group at Facebook, 113 of them completed the questionnaire. Based on the collected data received the survey have been analyzed by using SPSS. Our study shows that the communication channels that work least well for HHUS is the plasma screen, closely followed by the website. Best working channels was communication through Facebook and friends. We also discovered weakness in communication between HHUS and their members, which affects the ability to motivate students. What motivates students to become involved proves to be both to develop personally, but also to sharpen their resume. The biggest reason that students choose not to get involved is because they perceive the work environment within HHUS to be bad. Finally, we also examined how the quality of service commitment HHUS delivers. Through the use of a gap analysis, we investigated whether there were any deficiencies in the service. There has revealed that HHUS not really know what students want to engage in and as a result of this, they are also poor at adapting their entries by students' preferences.
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Aardema, Thomas P. "Student Engagement in LDS Seminaries." DigitalCommons@USU, 2013. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1464.
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This qualitative study examined student engagement in seminaries of The Churchcof Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). This study sought to answer the following question: "What are seminary teachers, who have been identified by content experts as having high levels of student engagement, doing to generate high levels of student engagement in their classrooms?" Ten LDS Seminary teachers were selected as participants for this study. The findings from this study were organized around the concepts of: competence, school membership, clarity of purpose, fairness, personal support, caring, authentic work, extrinsic reward, intrinsic interests, sense of ownership, connection to real-world application, and fun. The findings from this study suggest that there are 48 strategies that the 10 participants used to generate student engagement in their classrooms.
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Doucet, Richard John. "Student engagement : understanding the science and the stories of motivation." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99368.
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This thesis is a third-grade teacher's examination of student engagement. The promotion of student engagement is an important issue for teachers and educational researchers since engagement is considered essential for learning to occur. The purpose of this study was to identify and discuss several classroom contexts in which students motivate themselves for engagement, that is, to behave, feel, and think in ways that relate positively to school and learning. The method chosen was self-study, which is a form of narrative inquiry, whereby the author used memory work to recall and reflect on his childhood and professional experiences of student engagement. The insights gained and the issues raised from this inquiry are organised around three key themes: relationships, meaningful instruction, and goal orientation. Connections are made between the author's childhood and teacher experiences, and these experiences are linked to empirical and theoretical research on student motivation in classroom settings.
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Ward, Sarah Elizabeth. "The Impact of Blended Learning on Student Motivation, Engagement and Achievement." Wittenberg University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=witt1561715675863705.
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Echeverria, Roy Arnon. "School Engagement: Testing the Factorial Validity, Measurement, Structural and Latent Means Invariance between African American and White Students." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30078.
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This study was designed to accomplish three main objectives. The first objective was to test the hypothesis that school engagement is a multidimensional construct with three factors: behavioral, emotional, and cognitive or academic engagement. The second objective was to test for invariance of the measurement and factorial structures of school engagement across white and African-American students. And the third objective of the study was to test for invariance of the latent mean structures of school engagement across white and African-American students.
In order to accomplish the objectives of the study a step by step approached, using structural equation modeling, was followed. First, the best fitting model of school engagement for both white and African American students were identified. Second, invariance of the number of underlying factors of school engagement across white and African-American students was tested. Third, invariance of factor loadings across the two racial/ethnic groups was tested. Fourth, invariance of the factor variances and covariances was tested. Fifth, latent mean structures of school engagement between white and African-American were compared. Finally, the results of the calibrating sample were cross-validated with the second half of the sample.
Results from this study produced consistent support for a three-factor model of school engagement and without cross-loadings to other dimensions of school engagement. However, some parameters including factor loadings, factor variances and latent means were found non-invariant across white and African American students. African American students rated themselves statistically significantly higher on emotional engagement than white students. In addition, weaknesses in the measurement model especially the reliability coefficients of observed indicators and variance accounted for by the latent factors were identified. Cognitive engagement proved to be the most difficult to measure among all three dimensions of school engagement. Finally, analysis of the cross-validating sample produced some important differences which included one additional non-invariant factor loading, one factor covariance, and one additional latent mean difference between white and African American students.Ph. D.
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Munz, Stephan Georg. "Assessing Student-Athletes' Motivation: The Development and Validation of the MUSIC® Model of Athletic Motivation Inventory." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96546.
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Motivation is a key ingredient of successful athletic performance over time. Although the concept of maximizing motivation has long been of interest to coaches and practitioners, the vast number of motivational theories, principles, and strategies can seem overwhelming and confusing. Consequently, there is a need for providing more holistic frameworks to coaches and practitioners that not only summarize the essential findings of motivation research but also make the information more understandable and applicable in practical settings. The purpose of this study is to present and test the MUSIC Model of Motivation as a framework that can be applied in performance environments by coaches and practitioners to improve athletes' motivation, engagement, and ultimately, performance. The dissertation includes three related studies. First, I conducted a systematic content analysis to support the application of the MUSIC Model in sports. I analyzed 13 books in the realm of sport psychology and coaching. Results showed strong evidence that the underlying principles and theories of the MUSIC Model are represented in the sports literature, which supports the application of the model as a holistic framework for coaches. For the second study, Brett Jones and I developed a motivation inventory for athletes by modifying an existing motivation inventory for use with athletes. I collected data from student athletes at a large public university and conducted Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) with Principal Axis Factoring and Promax Rotation to examine the factor structure of the inventory scales. I used the results of the EFA to make changes to the inventory. Subsequently, I conducted a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) on a second data set to test for model fit. The fit indices for the CFA demonstrated reasonably good fit to the results, which confirmed the five-factor structure of motivation inventory. Reliability analysis based on Cronbach's alpha showed very good results with alpha ratings ranging between .84 and .94. Overall, the findings provided validity evidence for the produced scores of the MUSIC® Athletic Inventory with student-athletes.Ph. D.
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Moye-Weaver, Elizabeth. "Motivational Strategies and Student Engagement in a Blended German Course." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/9233.
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Blended and online courses can require more student self-regulation than traditional in-person courses. Instructors and course designers can support student motivation and self-regulation in a variety of ways, such as by including motivational strategies in the course materials. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the following three factors: the motivational strategies employed in the online course materials of a blended German language course, student engagement in the course, and student usage of the course materials. Selected course activities were analyzed using a checklist based on Keller's ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction) model for motivational design to identify the motivational strategies that were present. At the end of each unit, students completed surveys about their level of engagement with the online portions of the blended course and their perceptions of the online activities. At the end of the semester, data about student usage of the online activities was collected from the Canvas Learning Management System. The results of this study show that a wide range of motivational strategies are used in the online materials of this course and that students were highly engaged in this course. Students found the grammar and vocabulary activities to be the most motivating and the most useful for their language learning. The number of Attention strategies in an activity was strongly correlated with how often students used the activity, and the number of Attention strategies also predicted how often students would use the activities, likely because Attention strategies increase ease of use of the materials and encourage student curiosity. The number of Satisfaction strategies in an activity predicted how motivating students would find the activity, likely because Satisfaction strategies allowed students to use their new skills in realistic contexts and experience intrinsic and extrinsic rewards. There was a strong correlation between how motivating students found an activity and how useful they found the activity for their language learning. Including more motivational strategies, particularly Attention and Satisfaction strategies, can enhance the student experience and increase student motivation; however, students are most likely to be motivated by activities that they find useful for their language learning.
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Tyler, Jessica O'Brien Pruitt. "The impact of strengths-based development on student engagement." Fort Worth, Tex. : Texas Christian University, 2006. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-08072006-120824/unrestricted/tyler.pdf.
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Peterson, Polly. "Three Non-Cognitive Factors Influencing Persistence of Student-Athletes: Motivation, Engagement, and Grit." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/25956.
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Pressure to enroll and support students who will persist to graduation has become increasingly intense. Traditional measures such as ACT and GPA do not tell a complete story; consequently, significant interest in non-cognitive factors that contribute to success has evolved. More needs to be done however, to study unique populations of students whose circumstances differ from the general student. One such population are student-athletes who face competing demands for their time and talent, thus requiring certain non-cognitive characteristics that differ from general students. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine non-cognitive factors that impact persistence of student-athletes at a private, Midwestern university. Using a path model, the relationship between three motivational subscales, engagement, grit and persistence were examined, and whether these factors varied by race, gender or sport. Three instruments included in this study were the SAMSAQ, the IIR-S, and the Grit-S scale. Results revealed that the grit scale did not achieve internal consistency; therefore, analysis of this data was not discussed. The remaining factors revealed that Academic Motivation, Student-Athletic Motivation, and Engagement did not predict Persistence, but that Academic Motivation (? = .33, p < .001) and Student-Athletic Motivation (? = .31, p < .001) predicted Engagement. Career-Athletic Motivation revealed a significant negative relationship to Persistence (? = -.19 p < .001). Eliminating all non-significant paths, step-wise analysis revealed that Engagement predicted Persistence (? = .15, p < .05) and mediated a significant indirect relationship between Academic (? = .05, p < .05) and Student-Athletic Motivation (? = .05, p < .05) and Persistence. These results suggest that student-athletes with academic interests are more likely to engage in educationally purposeful activities that contribute to persistence, but as student-athletes become more interested in career athletics, their likelihood of persisting in a timely manner decreases. Results also revealed significant differences in Motivation and Persistence by gender, race and sport. Male and non-white student-athletes had higher Student-Athletic and Career Athletic Motivation scores and demonstrated a significant difference in their Persistence scores suggesting that student-athletes who are more interested in achieving success athletically may not persist on time, if at all.
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Dreher, Adam. "The effects of authentic based instruction on long term retention and application, student engagement, and student motivation." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/6812.
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This research attempted to determine if there was a benefit to authentic based instruction over traditional lecture based instruction. Two units were taught in the Social Studies curriculum area, the first using lecture based instruction and the second using authentic based instruction. Subject matter retention tests were given three weeks after each unit to determine subject matter retention as well as the student's ability to apply the retained knowledge to new ideas and problems. Student engagement and motivation data were also collected to help determine the effects of authentic instruction on all these areas of student performance. It was determined that authentic instruction did create a positive influence on subject matter retention, student engagement, and student motivation, but did not have an effect on the student's ability to apply the learned knowledge. It was recommended that further study be done on other specific aspects of authentic learning and the effects that can be elicited.
Keywords: authentic learning, student engagement, student motivationThesis (M.Ed.)--Wichita State University, College of Education, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction
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Rizek, Courtney. "A Close Teacher Makes a Better Student: The Impact of Teacher-Student Relationship on Adolescents' Academic Motivation." Ohio Dominican University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors1336952967.
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Niemi, Alissa M. "What are effective strategies to support student engagement and learning?" Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2007. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession89-10MIT/Niemi_A%20MITthesis%202007.pdf.
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Narasareddy, Gari Mourya Reddy. "Using Cyberlearning Environment to Improve Student?s Learning and Engagement in Introductory Computer Programming Courses." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29804.
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All Computer Science majors are required to take introductory programming (CS1) as a fundamental course which has a high dropout rate. Researchers report that CS1 students lack motivation and need constant resource support. Motivated by these factors, we developed a cyberlearning environment embedded with learning engagement strategies such as Collaborative Learning, Social Interaction and Gamification. The purpose of research is to investigate the impact the cyberlearning environment had on student acquisition of programming concepts. I conducted a series of studies to empirically validate these learning engagement strategies in the context of student learning outcomes. The results of my dissertation have shown that Gamification and Social Interaction when combined or used individually had more positive impact on student learning when compared to that of other learning engagement strategies.This work is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grants DUE-1225742 and DUE-1525112. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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Schuetz, Pamela Gail. "Influences of campus environment on adult community college student engagement." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1432770591&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Karabin, Beverly Lynn. "Student Engagement for College Students with the Hidden Disability of Orthostatic Intolerance." Connect to full text in OhioLINK ETD Center, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=toledo1262881229.
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Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Toledo, 2009.Typescript. "Submitted to the Graduate Faculty as partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Higher Education." Bibliography: leaves 274-302.
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Ellis, Keyana C. "Ready for College: Assessing the Influence of Student Engagement on Student Academic Motivation in a First-Year Experience Program." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/22046.
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The Virginia Tech Summer Academy (VTSA) Program, developed by through a collaborative partnership between faculty, administrators and staff concerned by attrition among-first year students, was introduced in summer 2012 as a campus initiative to assist first-year college students transition and acclimate to the academic and social systems of the campus environment. VTSA is a six-week intensive residential summer-bridge program that provides academic preparation, highly-individualized advising, learning communities, and the personal attention of faculty and peer mentorship through both academic engagement and structured activities. Although based on a substantive body of research concerning student retention, little is known about the empirical and influential value of this program.
A two-phase, sequential explanatory mixed-methods (QUAN"" QUAL) study was developed to assess the value of student academic engagement in a first-year experience program. Specifically, this research investigated the outcomes of participation on cognitive, behavioral, and affective factors of motivation, taking into account demographic and academic performance variables. In the initial quantitative phase, data from 89 students were analyzed to assess engagement and academic motivation. Data from the Scale of Educationally Purposeful Activities (SEPA) were used to determine levels of student engagement among VTSA students, while the Motivation Subscale of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) was used to investigate the change in student academic motivation before and after participation in VTSA. In the subsequent qualitative phase, 16 students participated in focus groups designed to explore student perceptions of engagement in the VTSA program and their connections to academic motivation. Both qualitative and quantitative data were assessed to provide an in-depth evaluation used to interpret and explain significant factors of student engagement that provide for internal and external academic motivation in college.Ph. D.
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Park, Sarah. "Utilizing iPads to Enhance Student Engagement in Vocabulary Learning: A Case Study." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5999.
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According to research evidence, the relationship between vocabulary and reading proficiency is so powerful that it is a valuable predictor of reading comprehension and academic achievement in the later school years (Scarborough, 2011). The major contributor to reading problem is the vocabulary demand of texts that students are assigned in school (Mckeown, Corsson, Arts, Sandora, & Beck, 2012). National Assessment of Education Progress (National Center for Education Statistics, 2012) stated the essential link between the words students know and students' ability to use those words to understand what they read. Therefore, researchers and educators have both agreed the importance of minimizing vocabulary gaps in order for students to be able to succeed academically and deal with rigorous content (Sparks, 2013).
This case study examined the effects of how utilizing an iPad would enhance a student's engagement in vocabulary learning. A third grade student performing below grade level in reading comprehension and vocabulary participated in this study. The research took place at the University of Central Florida, College of Education, Reading Clinic. This research study concentrated on five different iPad applications that focused on enhancing the student's engagement in ways to use the iPad to engage students with vocabulary learning. The data obtained from this research were gathered through pre and post vocabulary test developed by the researcher to assess the student's learning gains. In addition, multiple sources such as attitude pre and post survey, game results, and observations were also collected. At the end of the research, the participant displayed tremendous learning gains in vocabulary. In addition, the researcher concluded that utilizing an iPad significantly enhanced the student's engagement in vocabulary learning.M.Ed.
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Teaching, Learning, and Leadership
Education and Human Performance
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Peterson, Polly Jo Larson. "Three Non-Cognitive Factors That Influence the Persistence of Student-Athletes| Motivation, Engagement, and Grit." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10269063.
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Pressure to enroll and support students who will persist to graduation has become increasingly intense. Traditional measures such as ACT and GPA do not tell a complete story; consequently, significant interest in non-cognitive factors that contribute to success has evolved. More needs to be done however, to study unique populations of students whose circumstances differ from the general student. One such population are student-athletes who face competing demands for their time and talent, thus requiring certain non-cognitive characteristics that differ from general students.
Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine non-cognitive factors that impact persistence of student-athletes at a private, Midwestern university. Using a path model, the relationship between three motivational subscales, engagement, grit and persistence were examined, and whether these factors varied by race, gender or sport.
Three instruments included in this study were the SAMSAQ, the IIR-S, and the Grit-S scale. Results revealed that the grit scale did not achieve internal consistency; therefore, analysis of this data was not discussed. The remaining factors revealed that Academic Motivation, Student-Athletic Motivation, and Engagement did not predict Persistence, but that Academic Motivation (β = .33, p < .001) and Student-Athletic Motivation (β = .31, p < .001) predicted Engagement. Career-Athletic Motivation revealed a significant negative relationship to Persistence (β = -.19 p < .001).
Eliminating all non-significant paths, step-wise analysis revealed that Engagement predicted Persistence (β = .15, p < .05) and mediated a significant indirect relationship between Academic (β = .05, p < .05) and Student-Athletic Motivation (β = .05, p < .05) and Persistence.
These results suggest that student-athletes with academic interests are more likely to engage in educationally purposeful activities that contribute to persistence, but as student-athletes become more interested in career athletics, their likelihood of persisting in a timely manner decreases. Results also revealed significant differences in Motivation and Persistence by gender, race and sport. Male and non-white student-athletes had higher Student-Athletic and Career Athletic Motivation scores and demonstrated a significant difference in their Persistence scores suggesting that student-athletes who are more interested in achieving success athletically may not persist on time, if at all.
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Katyal, Kokila Roy. "Teacher leadership and its impact on student engagement in schools : case studies in Hong Kong." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35762986.
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Howard, Eddie J. Jr. "Institutional Strategies of Identified Involvement Triggers that Increase Campus Engagement: A Longitudinal Analysis Based on an Individual National Survey of Student Engagement Responses." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1587745870664836.
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Reddick, Susan Jane. "Strategies That Enhance Student Engagement in the Community College Learning Environment." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6267.
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From 2012 to 2015, students' academic performance at a community college in North Carolina fell below North Carolina Community College System baseline benchmarks despite the institution's adoption of several student success initiatives. Building from the established correlation between student academic achievement and academic engagement and the importance of noncognitive competencies in moderating student academic engagement, this qualitative case study investigated the academic experiences of 7 students who were members of the Paying It Forward mentoring program to determine the types of support and resources that students needed to develop and hone intrinsic motivation, sense of belonging, and self-efficacy-the noncognitivenoncognitive competencies proven to most directly moderate academic engagement. The guiding frameworks included a student-engagement framework developed by the Chicago Consortium on School Research, the learner-centered curriculum framework, and the generalized internal/external model. The research questions focused on specific factors that facilitated students' development of intrinsic motivation, sense of belonging, and academic confidence. The findings identified relationships between student academic performance and academic engagement as moderated by these noncognitivenoncognitive competencies and supported previous research concerning the invaluable role of faculty in developing students' sense of belonging. A resulting professional development project may enable faculty to systematically bolster students' academic engagement and performance by directly supporting mastery of these noncognitivenoncognitive competencies. This project may contribute to social change through increased graduation and transfer rates, which would create opportunities for enhanced social capital.
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Li, Xueyan, and 李雪燕. "Chinese University students' motivation and engagement: their antecedents and outcomes." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50162743.
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As one of the most influential constructs in educational psychology, academic motivation represents individuals’ drives and energies to learn; as an emerging construct attracting increasing interest, engagement manifests individuals’ drives and energies, such as the use of self-regulation strategies. However, little existing research simultaneously considers these two groups of constructs within one framework, or takes their antecedents and outcomes into account, especially in regards to Chinese university students. The present study attempts to systematically study motivation and engagement on the basis of social-cognitive motivation theory and achievement orientation theory as a means of unifying substantive and empirical claims.
To accomplish these purposes, two studies, each with two parts, have been conducted with Chinese university students as participants. In Study One, Part One explores the factor structure of several instruments – including the Motivation and Engagement Scales-University/College (MES-UC), the Goal Orientation and Learning Strategies Survey (GOALS-S), the Scale of Institution Integration (SII) and the Academic Satisfaction Questionnaire (ASQ) – in half the sample (426 cases). Cross-validation with the other half of the sample is then undertaken (423 cases). Part Two investigates a process model, which includes student multiple motivational beliefs, engagement and educational outcomes through path analysis. The results suggest that students’ work avoidance goal predicts their academic dissatisfaction directly and indirectly via maladaptive engagement; their social concern goal indirectly predicts intellectual development via adaptive engagement; their social approval goal directly influences achievement; and student engagement mediates the impacts of other motivational beliefs on their academic dissatisfaction, intellectual development and achievement. Furthermore, social concern, social approval, social status goals and work avoidance goals are significantly related to motivation and engagement.
In Study Two, Part One cross-validates the MES-UC instrument in a new independent sample (836 cases) of Chinese university students. Other instruments including the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) and the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Survey (PALS) are also validated. Part Two investigates a process model, which includes classroom goal structure, motivational beliefs, engagement and achievement through path analysis. The results find that the classroom mastery goal structure predicts adaptive and maladaptive engagement via adaptive motivation, and the classroom performance-avoidance goal structure affects maladaptive engagement via personal performance-approach goal orientation and maladaptive motivation
In summary, by considering the classroom goal structure as a contextual antecedent and a variety of motivational beliefs as individual antecedents, as well as achievement-related constructs as outcomes, the thesis finds the mediation effect of motivational beliefs between classroom goal structure and student engagement, as well as the mediation effect of engagement between motivational beliefs and achievement-related outcomes. The thesis also summarizes the main contributions, and implications, noting the limitations and pointing out some directions for future research in the field of student motivation and engagement.published_or_final_version
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Bracey, Jamie Maatkare. "Assessing African-American and Latino Middle School Student Engagement and Motivation to Persist in STEM Domains." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/126858.
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This study used a quasi experimental design to compare two groups of African American and Latino middle school students' pre- and post engagement after exposure to one of two STEM-related opportunities to learn: one with culturally relevant pedagogy anchored by elements of cognitive apprenticeship; the other without. African-American and Latino middle school students (n=121) recruited from 29 of the lowest performing middle schools in a large urban school district participated. Results indicated no statistically significant change in pre- or post levels of engagement as a result of the different instructional formats. Students exposed to STEM using culturally relevant pedagogy maintained and slightly improved math performance weeks after the program ended; the later group showed a sharp decline in math achievement after the program ended. While it is inconclusive which elements of culturally relevant pedagogy, or cognitive apprenticeship directly affected student math outcomes, this study sets the stage for continued empirical research on how the culture of the learning environment can be adjusted to support minority student engagement and persistence in STEM domains.
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Williamson, Robin Marie. "Student Engagement Theory: A Comparison of Jesuit, Catholic, and Christian Universities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28491/.
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This research study analyzed the results of the Jesuit Universities Consortium in comparison with the results of the Catholic Colleges and Universities and the Council for Christian Colleges Consortia as measured by the 2005 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) in order to determine and identify any statistically significant differences between the consortia. One-way ANOVA analyses and Tukey HSD post hoc comparisons were conducted on the data from freshmen/first year students and seniors/fourth year students on each of the five clusters of the NSSE to determine any statistically significant difference and, subsequently, the effect size of any found differences. The study found that there were statistically significant differences on the following: 1) freshmen/first year students in the Jesuit Universities Consortium and the freshmen/first year students in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Consortium on the NSSE cluster of Academic Challenge, 2) freshmen/first year students in the Jesuit Universities Consortium and the freshmen/first year students in the Catholic Colleges and Universities Consortium on the NSSE cluster of Enriching Educational Experiences, 3) freshmen/first year students in the Jesuit Universities Consortium and the freshmen/first year students in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Consortium on the NSSE cluster of Supportive Campus Environment, 4) seniors/fourth year students in the Jesuit Universities Consortium and the seniors/fourth year students in the Catholic Colleges and Universities Consortium on the NSSE cluster of Active and Collaborative Learning, and 5) seniors/fourth year students in the Jesuit Universities Consortium and the seniors/fourth year students in both of the Catholic Colleges and Universities and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities Consortia on the NSSE cluster of Supportive Campus Environment. While statistically significant differences were found in the aforementioned analyses, effect sizes were small for all. Future research studies, including longitudinal studies, are needed to fully investigate levels of student engagement within the three consortia.
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Tkaczyk-Ikeda, Jennifer M. "Effective strategies for fostering motivation an analysis of research on cultivating motivation and engagement /." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2010. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession89-10MIT/Tkaczyk-Ikeda_JMMIT2010.pdf.
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Stites, Dawn. "Developing Teacher Efficacy in High Poverty Schools." Scholar Commons, 2018. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7578.
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This capstone project was part of a group project completed by three principals in elementary schools in Hillsborough County, Florida. The project began because of our passion to understand effective teachers. Our collective goal was to have more engaged teachers which would create more engaged students resulting in greater student and teacher success.
Our overall group project purpose was to discover the behavior and characteristics an engaged teacher demonstrates and how these behaviors affect the learning environment and the students that are in that environment. The project was guided by the question, how does a culture of engaged teachers develop and support student engagement, choice, and voice?
My area of focus was, how do children and adults benefit from an engaged learning environment? Selected literature was reviewed that concentrated on the impact of teacher engagement on student learning; student, teacher and parent voice, student and teacher mutuality, and building capacity for engaged learning environments. Results of two district-administered survey instruments were used as data sources: the School Climate and Perception Survey (SCIP) and the Teaching, Empowering, Leading and Learning (TELL). A secondary analysis of the 2014-2015 survey results was conducted for this project, using our three schools as the unit of analysis. Key findings in my area of focus included the importance of relationship and student voice in student engagement; the importance of teacher autonomy, self- and collective efficacy in teacher engagement; and barriers to engagement in the learning environment.
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Rhodes, Hilary. "Confronting the challenges of student engagement a case study of a school-based intervention /." Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2007. http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD218/.
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Calore, Elisa <1995>. "Linking teacher’s care and motivation to students’ engagement and achievement." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16121.
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L’obiettivo della tesi è quello di investigare come il supporto e la motivazione degli insegnanti contribuiscono ad aumentare la motivazione e il rendimento scolastico degli studenti. Per fare ciò, è stato chiesto agli studenti delle scuole superiori (14-19 anni) e ai loro insegnanti, di partecipare allo studio. Attraverso un questionario, abbiamo osservato se gli studenti percepiscono il supporto dei loro insegnanti e quanto è importante per loro. Al contempo, è stato osservato il punto di vista degli insegnanti per vedere se il supporto è percepito in modo diverso da punti di vista diversi. Abbiamo esaminato differenti metodi didattici, mostrando come questi pongano importanza diversa agli studenti e alla loro motivazione, indagando quali portano ad un più efficace e durevole esito scolastico. Inoltre, la sfera psicologica dell’educazione è stata analizzata: la psicologia dello sviluppo ha rivestito un ruolo fondamentale nel comprendere l’adolescenza e gli insegnanti, acquisendo maggiori conoscenze sulle questioni psicologiche, possono aiutare i loro studenti nel processo di crescita e formazione della personalità. Infine, ci siamo concentrati su come gli stili educativi dell’insegnante influenzino sia il processo di apprendimento che il coinvolgimento scolastico. Abbiamo considerato come la creazione di relazioni positive possono contribuire a creare un’atmosfera classe positiva e come questa porti ad un aumento della motivazione e ad un potenziale successo scolastico.
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Riley, Melissa K. "The influence of achievement motivation, academic self-concept and the student teacher relationship in predicting school engagement." Scholarly Commons, 2013. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/121.
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School engagement has garnered interest in the academic research as a protective factor from many undesirable academic outcomes in high school. Maladaptive engagement patterns may begin to form as early as elementary school, therefore examining early predictors may be helpful in trying to identify and remedy early patterns of disengagement. The current study investigated the significance of early school motivation, academic self-concept and the student-teacher relationship in predicting student-reported school engagement at the age of 15 after controlling for race, gender, socioeconomic status, previous attendance, and previous achievement. This study included participants from the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care (SECC) a comprehensive research database. It was hypothesized that student reported motivation in grade 5 would predict student reported school engagement at age 15, and that English self-concept and math self-concept in grade 6 and at age 15 would mediate this relationship. Findings from the data supported these hypotheses, establishing a relationship between early motivation and later engagement. Additionally, self-concept in both English and math was found to mediate that relationship. Self-concept in English and math at both grade 6 and age 15 had mediating effects on the relationship between motivation and engagement. It was hypothesized that the student-teacher relationship in grade 6 and at age 15 would moderate the relationship between motivation and engagement. The data did not support this hypothesis. Limitations and suggestions for future research on motivation, engagement, and the student-teacher are discussed.
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Riis, Jonathan. "What evidence is there that students actually learn anything with the help of case studies?" Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-32634.
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore if there is any evidence that students actually can learn anything with the help of case studies. This study will answer the hypothesis “H” that are constructed as following: “H”. “The case study teaching method is a stimulating method for students to learn in.” Methodology - The method used in this paper is qualitative secondary research from databases. The databases consist of Diva, Google Scholar, Emerald, Web of Science and Scopus. Other secondary research is from research books and books about pedagogy. Implications/Findings - This research study shows that case studies have a positive influence on the student’s engagement and that learning gets more meaningful if the students are more engaged in the learning process. To be more engaged can move the student to a higher level of thinking. Furthermore, case studies enhanced the learning retention in students. Keywords - Student, Evidence, Learning, Case Study, Engagement, Stimulating, Motivation, Influence. Paper type – Research paper.
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Massey, Daniele Ann. "Teacher's Implementation of Engaging Activities in Online High School Courses." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6239.
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Student engagement is critical to student success, graduation rates, and retention in both face-to-face and online learning environments. In an online environment, the teacher is responsible for implementing engaging instructional activities. The problem examined in this qualitative case study was the inconsistent teacher implementation of engaging instructional strategies in online courses at a school serving U.S. military-connected students. The purpose of the study was to investigate the motivation of teachers to support student engagement opportunities. Self-determination theory (SDT), which has autonomy, competence, and relatedness as main constructs, was used as the conceptual framework and the basis for the research questions. The research questions focused on influence of teacher's motivation on implementation of engaging instructional activities. Seven online high school teachers were selected as participants. Data sources consisted of interviews with participants and assessments of the courses. Data was analyzed using open and axial coding based on SDT. Findings showed that motivation to implement the activities was positively influenced by autonomy, competence of content knowledge, and relationships. Motivation was negatively influenced by a lack of competence in technical skills in the online environment. As a result of the findings, a professional development workshop was developed to increase teacher's understanding of student engagement and provide the instructors with an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues to create a resource toolbox for future use. The findings promote positive social change by adding to the body of knowledge on online learning in secondary schools and providing online high school teachers with insight about online course development and student engagement strategies they can use to positively affect student learning.
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Wong, Pak-ho, and 王柏豪. "The vicissitudes of student engagement in junior secondary school and their relationships with perceived teacher support." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45981875.
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Mc, Donald Jeanne M. Hesse Douglas Dean. "Interest and engagement in writing." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9819895.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1997.Title from title page screen, viewed June 29, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Douglas D. Hesse (chair), Janice G. Neuleib, Ronald J. Fortune. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-246) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Ada, Mireilla Bikanga. "Using a mobile web application for assessment feedback to enhance student motivation, engagement and communication in tertiary education." Thesis, University of the West of Scotland, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.748536.
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Tong, Kar-man Karen, and 湯嘉文. "The relation of perceived classroom social environment to early adolescents' academic self-efficacy, engagement, school participationand academic achievement." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45589562.
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Lindberg, Rachel. "Relationships Between Asynchronous Online Discussion Design and Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Community, Participation, and Motivation." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1592169496975235.
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Siirilä, A. (Aleksi). "Gamifying a higher education course:design guidelines for increasing students’ motivation and engagement." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201706022479.
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Games have become popular in today’s media. Along with games, gamification has become popular in many contexts, such as education and businesses, to motivate and engage people. The goal for this study was to study how gamification can improve the motivation and engagement of the students in higher education studies and to provide a set of guidelines for designing a gamified higher education course. There was a practical need for a gamified higher education course, and a research and development project was conducted for the need in September 2016. At the start, preliminary literature review was done to look for guidelines regarding the design of gamifying a higher education course. Unfortunately, design guidelines as such were hard to find from the literature but the development of the gamified solution for the course had to be started. A gamification platform for a higher education course was constructed during the project, but it was not evaluated. After the project, it became even more clear that there was a gap in the literature which is trying to be filled with this study. More thorough literature review was conducted on gamification literature to find constructs and purposes of gamification. Since the gamified course concept was created by teacher and designers, students’ point of view was lacking. Therefore, qualitative interview was considered as valuable next step in the iterative process for the design guidelines. Interviews were used to find matching game elements and purposes of gamification as students saw them. Additionally, concept of the created gamification platform was evaluated with qualitative interviews. As a result of this study, design guidelines were primarily done to help teachers to choose right elements for their higher education course and secondarily to help designer to design the gamification platform. A four-part guideline was built to guide teachers in their choices on gamifying a higher education course.
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Knight, Anthony Wayne. "A self-determination theory-based analysis of the effects of clinical instructor behavior on student clinical engagement." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3123.
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Although the link between classroom instructor behavior and student engagement has been well documented, the same cannot be said for instructors and students interacting with one another in clinical settings. Given the relatively close nature of the student-clinical instructor (CI) relationship and the considerable differences between the structured environment of the classroom and the unpredictable and often stressful environment of the healthcare clinic, classroom-based assumptions of what constitutes effective or ineffective teaching behavior may or may not be valid for the clinic. This study applied self-determination theory to investigate the degree to which CI psychological need-supporting/thwarting behaviors affect student clinical engagement. An online survey consisting of items from established scales recognized to measure teacher autonomy-, competency- and relatedness-supporting/thwarting behavior was used to question 751 undergraduate students who were currently enrolled in the clinical portion of their education in one of four radiation science disciplines (radiologic technology, radiation therapy, diagnostic medical sonography, and nuclear medicine technology) at one of 387 institutions of higher education across the United States.
Correlational and linear regression analysis revealed a strong connection between overall CI need-supporting/thwarting behavior and student clinical engagement (r(749) = 0.75, p = .0000 and ΔR2 = .5181, pr > F = .0000). The study also revealed CI relatedness-supporting/thwarting behaviors to have the most influence on student clinical engagement (β=.4197, p = .000), followed by autonomy-supporting/thwarting behaviors (β=0.1298, p = .001) and competency-supporting/thwarting behaviors (β=0.1110, p=.007). A number of key student background factors proved to have very little or no influence on student clinical engagement.
The results of this study brings awareness to the powerful impact clinical instructors have on their students' motivation to engage in educationally productive clinical activities and serves to underscore the need for routine in-service programs specifically designed to teach CIs how to effectively employ psychological need-supporting behaviors and avoid psychological need-thwarting behaviors when working with their students.
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Calderhead, William J. "Effects of interspersed math problems on the task engagement of middle school students /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3113002.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 81-86). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Williams, Derrick L. "The Relationship Between Student Achievement and Other Selected Variables and Teacher Engagement." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2017. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/70.
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It was the goal of this study to determine the relationship between student achievement and other selected variable such as principal years of experience, student socioeconomic status, teachers’ perceptions of administrative support, students’ perceptions of teacher support, and teacher attendance to teacher engagement. The study also determined if the variables along with teacher engagement were predictors of attrition. Pearson correlations were used to analyze the data that had the greatest significant relationship to teacher engagement. Regression tests were used to determine if the variables were predictors of attrition. The researcher concluded that student achievement, teachers’ perceptions of principal support, and students’ perceptions of teachers had the most significant relationship to teacher engagement; student socioeconomic status had a negative relationship with teacher engagement. The researcher found that the selected variables were not significant predictors of teacher attrition. Recommendations were suggested for central office leaders, building level leaders, teachers, and future researchers.
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Fast, Annette. "Lärarens tankar om vad som motiverar eleven i undervisningen / Teacher’s thoughts on what motivates the student in teaching." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-33312.
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Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka de motiverande faktorer som lärarna anser vara betydande när de planerar och genomför en lektion. Målet är att förbättra elevernas motivation för att uppnå högre resultat. Frågorna är:• Vilka motivationsfaktorer är viktiga för lärarna i undervisningen för att få eleverna att känna sig motiverade att prestera?• Vilka motiverande faktorer tar lärarna hänsyn till i sin undervisning?• Hur ser lärarna på de stödfunktioner som finns i utbildningen?Den teoretiska ramen för undersökningen bygger på värde och mål-teorier som representeras av Hackman och Oldhams arbetsdesignteori, Locke och Lathams målteori. Analysen från studien är inspirerad av metoden "Grounded" teori och bygger på intervjuer med fem lärare som undervisar elever i grundskolans tidigare år i två skolor.Undersökningen visar bland annat att relationen mellan lärare och elev är adaptiv. Den visar också hur olika lärare diskuterar motivationsfaktorer. De faktorer som dessa lärare identifierar i intervjuerna är miljö, bedömning, undervisning, förståelse, mål, relation, engagemang och säkerhet. Undersökningen resulterade också i en modell för att analysera lärare sätt att tänka om hur man undervisar att motivera eleverna.Vilka faktorer lärarens tycker är viktigt att motivera eleverna är inte bara de faktorer som visas i analysmodellen. Det beror också på hur förhållandena är runt eleven och läraren. Det beror på lärarens egen utbildning, år i yrket och vad fortbildning de har fått från arbetsgivaren.Nyckelord: Bedömning, Förståelse, engagemang, motivation, undervisning.The aim of this study is to investigate the motivating factors that teachers consider to be significant when they plan and implement a lesson. The goal being improving students’ motivation in order to achieve higher results. The questions are:•Which motivation factors are important for the teachers in their teaching to make students feel motivated to perform?•What motivating factors do teachers take into account in their teaching?•How do the teachers look upon the supporting functions in education?The theoretical frame of the investigation is founded upon the “Value and Goal” theories represented by Hackman and Oldhams’ “Work design” theory, Locke and Lathams’ “Goal” theory. The analysis from the study is inspired by the method “Grounded” theory and is based on interviews with five teachers who teaches first grade students in two schools.The investigation shows, among other things, that the relation between the teacher and student is adaptive. It also shows how different teachers discuss motivation factors. The factors that these teachers identifies in the interviews are environment, assessment, teaching, comprehension, goal, relation, engagement, and safety. The investigation also resulted in a model for analysing teachers way of thinking about how to teach to motivate students.What factors teacher’s think are important to motivate students aren’t just the factors that are shown in the analysis model. It also depends on what the conditions are around the student and the teacher. It depends on the teacher’s own education, years in the profession and what in-service training they have received from the employer.Keywords: Assessment, Comprehension, Engagement, Motivation, Teaching.
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Stephens, Wendy Steadman. "The Influence of Engagement with Graphic Narrative Text Formats on Student Attitudes Towards the School Library." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700038/.
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Comics, graphic novels, and manga differ appreciably from textual narrative formats, and materials with increasingly visual elements have found their way into progressive and student-centered library collections. But many educators and librarians still resist inclusion of graphic narratives in school libraries and devalue the reading practice of students who prefer more visual texts. Using the framework of radical change, which posits that both text conventions and reader expectations for text are increasingly multimodal as they possess characteristics of evolving digital media, this study considered the relationship of the characteristics of text individual students prefer, particularly those they select from the school library, and their attitudes towards aspects of reading practice as evidenced through the Adolescent Motivation to Read Profile instrument. Survey data was supplemented with circulation history from the library management system to inform a correlational study punctuating attitudinal differences based on reader preferences. Findings include high school students who engage with graphic narrative text formats reporting more favorable views of libraries and reading. There is a demonstrable distinction in attitudes between students who prefer more visual text when compared with peers with more traditional print affinities. Student engaging with graphic narrative texts also report more frequent engagement with text overall. These demonstrated relationships should help to legitimize the inclusion of more graphic narrative text formats in school library collections.
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Ayers, Joseph J. "Exploring the Dual-natured Impact of Digital Technology on Student-classroom Engagement in a Texas Public High School." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc822755/.
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The past decade has become rife with an eagerness to integrate new digital technology into teaching. While there have been decades of research done on the importance of curriculum and pedagogy on student engagement, findings of actual technology integration are scarce. Moreover, what does it take to engage students in classroom activities and lessons when technology is introduced? The purpose of this study was to explore how digital technology, when integrated into classroom teaching and activities, impacted the students-classroom engagement based on the interim-cognitive, meta-cognitive, motivational, and behavioral markers. This was explored in a Texas public high school across the four core classes (English, Math, Science, and Social Studies. Data was collected in the form of observational field notes, transcripts of recorded lessons, and Likert-scaled surveys. Thematic analysis was used in analyzing qualitative data, Pearson’s correlation of those components found by factor analysis verified three of the five themes identified from the thematic analysis with statistical significance. The findings suggest that mere use of technology does not have a profound impact on student engagement. Instead, technology tends to amplify the existing classroom culture and social norms agreed upon between the teacher and their students. Texas teachers and students are also redefining the meaning of curriculum to include technology as a result of the attempted integration. This research finds that students’ hands-on activities under teachers’ guidance with the use of technology excel when teachers are molding digital work.
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Iniguez, Jose Fernando. "An open lunch intervention targeting sense of belonging within a house plan small learning community the impact on student engagement and staff perceptions and practices /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
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Li, Ming. "An Intervention to Increase Students' Engagement and Achievement in College English Classes in China using the MUSIC Model of Motivation." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/86143.
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Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is regarded as an effective approach to teaching foreign languages because it focuses on students' engagement and communicative competence. In the realm of educational psychology, researchers have identified many teaching strategies that can have positive effects on students' motivation and engagement. Jones (2009, 2015) synthesized these strategies and created the MUSIC® Model of Motivation. MUSIC is an acronym for the strategies related to eMpowerment, Usefulness, Success, Interest and Caring. The MUSIC model can be used to help instructors to redesign their instruction to motivate and engage their students in learning activities. The purpose of this research was to examine the effectiveness of incorporating the MUSIC model strategies into CLT classes at a university in China.
I used a self-report survey comprised of seven subscales (representing five motivation-related variables and two engagement variables) to collect data on students' course perceptions and their engagement in a college English class. The participants were first year college students at a university in central China (n = 259). Independent samples t-tests, regression, and correlation were used to answer the following two research questions:
1. Is there a difference in students' motivation and achievement in traditional lecture classes versus CLT classes that incorporate MUSIC model strategies?
2. To what extent do students' MUSIC model perceptions relate to their engagement and achievement?
The results indicated that there was a significant difference between the traditional lecture class and the CLT classes incorporating MUSIC model strategies. Students in CLT classes perceived more control in the class, found the course to be more useful, were more interested, and perceived more caring from their teacher. As a result, students in CLT classes put forth more effort and achieved higher scores on a standardized English test. In addition, the results revealed that students' MUSIC model perceptions predicted their engagement both in CLT classes and the traditional classes. However, the results showed that the MUSIC model components did not significantly predict student achievement. These findings suggest that the MUSIC model and the MUSIC Inventory are ideal tools for Chinese college English teachers to use when they design instruction.Ph. D.
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Hamm, Breanna H. "Today's Learners: Applying Gaming Elements to Enhance Student Engagement in a University Visual Communication Course." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1308576036.
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Brogan, Deirdre Tara. "Stuck in the Middle: Career Progress, Motivation, and Engagement among Urban Middle School Students." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1159.
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Thesis advisor: Maureen E. KennyThe process of educational and vocational development does not occur at a single point in time. Many indicators of dropping out of high school, for example, are present by middle school (Alexander et al., 1997; Balfanz et al., 2007). Yet, research and practice focus almost exclusively on enriching the learning and work experiences of high school students (cf. Fouad, 1997; Solberg, Howard, Blustein, & Close, 2002), and little is known about the factors related to career progress in urban middle school students. In order to address this gap, the current study used a developmental contextualism framework to explore the relationship of a variety of academic and motivational factors with students' career progress at the middle school level. Specifically, this study investigated the contributions of school engagement, academic motivational beliefs (self-efficacy, intrinsic value, skepticism), gender, school grade, prior attendance, and prior Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) scores (Math and English Language Arts, (ELA) to career progress. Urban middle school students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade completed self-report questionnaires assessing career progress, school engagement, and academic motivational beliefs. Academic achievement (i.e. MCAS Math and ELA scores) and attendance for the previous academic year were obtained from school records. Results of the study reveal that (1) Prior academic achievement (MCAS Math and ELA scores), attendance, gender, and grade only account for a small proportion of variance in career progress; (2) Middle school students who have progressed further in career development also demonstrate higher school engagement and academic motivational beliefs; (3) Career progress explains school engagement beyond the effect of prior school achievement; and (4) Academic motivational beliefs mediate the relationship between career progress and school engagement. The findings suggest that middle school students sustain career progress despite levels of past academic achievement. They also support prior research that links career progress with school engagement among high school students (Kenny, et al., 2007), and suggests that motivational beliefs may be a link in explaining that relationship
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education
Discipline: Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology
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Currie, Cailin Tricia. "Reciprocal Effects of Student Engagement and Disaffection on Changes in Teacher Support Over the School Year." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1646.
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Building upon previous research on the importance of students' motivation for their learning and academic success, this study sought to examine how students' motivation in the classroom may impact the way their teachers' treat them. Specifically, data from 423 middle school students and their 21 teachers were used to examine the extent to which student engagement and disaffection (individually and in combination) in the fall predicted changes in teachers' provision of motivational support from fall to spring of the same school year. The study also examined whether these relationships might differ by student grade or gender, and whether the effects of each component of motivation can be buffered or boosted by the level of the other component.
Overall, results provided partial support for study hypotheses. As expected, engagement and disaffection (as reported both by students and by teachers) individually predicted changes in teacher motivational support over the school year, such that engaged students were more likely to gain teacher support across the school year whereas disaffected students were more likely to lose teacher support. Assessing the unique effects of engagement and disaffection suggested partial support for their combined predictive utility, although less support was found for teacher-reports than student-reports. Across time, student-reported disaffection demonstrated unique effects on changes in teacher support but student-reported engagement did not. For teacher-reports of engagement and disaffection, neither component of motivation predicted changes in teacher support above and beyond the other component.
Across reporters, mean-level gender differences in the constructs of interest were consistent with expectations based on previous research suggesting that girls tend to be more motivated than boys in school; however, despite these significant differences in mean-levels, there were few gender differences in the strength of the reciprocal effects of student motivation on teacher support. Of the 12 tests for gender differences in the links between student motivation and teacher support, only two were found, and both cases demonstrated significant gender effects of the same form, such that engagement and disaffection demonstrated significant reciprocal effects for both genders; however, the effects were significantly stronger for boys. As expected, examination of mean-level differences in engagement and disaffection as a function of grade suggested that student motivation and teacher support decline as students progress through middle school. In general, significant reciprocal effects of student motivation on teacher support across time were found for students of all grades for both student- and teacher reports; however there were some grade-level differences in the strength of those associations. Results indicated that engagement and disaffection were more important predictors of changes in teacher support over the school year for older students (8th graders) than for younger students (6th or 7th graders).
Finally, the expected interaction between engagement and disaffection was only partially supported and only for teacher-reports. Specifically, as predicted, the relationship between teacher-reported engagement and teacher support was stronger for students who were low in disaffection, suggesting low disaffection boosted the positive effects of engagement. At the same time, and contrary to expectations, instead of the relationship between disaffection and teacher support being weaker for students perceived as highly engaged, these relations were actually stronger such that disaffection was a stronger predictor of losses in teacher support for highly engaged students than for their equally disaffected but less engaged peers. Implications for educational interventions and daily classroom practices are discussed. This study, by utilizing a two time-point design, a diverse at-risk student population, and measures from both student and teacher perspectives, attempted to make a contribution to the sparse but potentially important research literature on how student's motivation can shape their experiences with teachers in the classroom.
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Bart, Austin Cory. "Motivating Introductory Computing Students with Pedagogical Datasets." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77585.
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Computing courses struggle to retain introductory students, especially as learner demographics have expanded to include more diverse majors, backgrounds, and career interests. Motivational contexts for these courses must extend beyond short-term interest to empower students and connect to learners' long-term goals, while maintaining a scaffolded experience. To solve ongoing problems such as student retention, methods should be explored that can engage and motivate students.
I propose Data Science as an introductory context that can appeal to a wide range of learners. To test this hypothesis, my work uses two educational theories — the MUSIC Model of Academic Motivation and Situated Learning Theory — to evaluate different components of a student's learning experience for their contribution to the student's motivation. I analyze existing contexts that are used in introductory computing courses, such as game design and media computation, and their limitations in regard to educational theories. I also review how Data Science has been used as a context, and its associated affordances and barriers.
Next, I describe two research projects that make it simple to integrate Data Science into introductory classes. The first project, RealTimeWeb, was a prototypical exploration of how real-time web APIs could be scaffolded into introductory projects and problems. RealTimeWeb evolved into the CORGIS Project, an extensible framework populated by a diverse collection of freely available "Pedagogical Datasets" designed specifically for novices. These datasets are available in easy-to-use libraries for multiple languages, various file formats, and also through accessible web-based tools. While developing these datasets, I identified and systematized a number of design issues, opportunities, and concepts involved in the preparation of Pedagogical Datasets.
With the completed technology, I staged a number of interventions to evaluate Data Science as an introductory context and to better understand the relationship between student motivation and course outcomes. I present findings that show evidence for the potential of a Data Science context to motivate learners. While I found evidence that the course content naturally has a stronger influence on course outcomes, the course context is a valuable component of the course's learning experience.Ph. D.
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Pearson, Alexa. "A Mixed Methods Exploration of Reading Intervention, Reading Motivation, and School Engagement With High School Students." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19701.
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Older students with reading difficulties struggle with high school academics and are at risk for not graduating. Despite a growing body of research on adolescent literacy in upper elementary and middle school, the research on high school reading interventions is relatively scant and not as promising as one would hope. Rather than assuming students know how to read well by the time they enter secondary schools, educators need to consider the reading skills students may be lacking as well as ensure that students remain motivated and engaged in learning. This study synthesizes the research findings from several studies on supplementary reading interventions for adolescents as well as research findings on how motivation is interwoven with adolescent literacy achievement. Previous research has examined motivation for reading by looking at intrinsic and avoidance motivation and forming reading profiles of students in fifth grade. My study brings these profiles to the high school level and investigates whether the reading profiles at the end of eighth grade predict reading achievement and motivation for ninth grade students in a reading intervention course and those not in a reading intervention. The study focuses on ninth grade, a pivotal year for students, and how students’ involvement in reading intervention courses prior to and in ninth grade predict student achievement on a reading comprehension measure, as well as their reading motivation and school engagement.