Does school motivation change over secondary school years?

Does school motivation change over secondary school years?

AARE 2001 Conference Papers

• Yeung, Nancy Tsui Yee Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Yeung, Alexander Seeshing Hong Kong Institute of Education

• Jeffrey, P. L.

Melbourne

Australian Association for Research in Education

2001

Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). Conference (2001: Fremantle WA)

• C Psychology & Learning
  • CC Motivation of Learning
• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment

Student Motivation Secondary School Students Attitude Change Influences Structural Equation Models Student Educational Objectives Occupational Aspiration Academic Aspiration Secondary Education Student Surveys Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Secondary Education

A total of 199 students from a school in Hong Kong responded to 25 items in a survey. Principal components analysis found 4 school motivation factors consistent with the Task, Effort, Competitivenes and Praise scales of the McInerney et al. Inventory of School Motivation, 1 education aspiration factor and 1 career aspiration factor. The correlations indicated significant relations between the motivation factors and the aspiration factors. A path model applying a structural equation modeling approach found that Task, Effort and Competitiveness orientations had relatively stronger impacts on education aspirations whereas Task and Praise had stronger impacts on career aspirations. Analysis of variance found that grade 7 students had significantly higher Task, Effort and Praise scores and higher career aspirations than students from grades 9 and 11. The drastic drop from grade 7 of motivation scores--especially Task and Effort, both pertaining to a mastery orientation dimension that has been assumed to be a major driving force for excellence-calls for urgent attention to student motivation in junior secondary classes.
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2010-11-25