scholarly journals Creating a motivation scale for secondary school students in Papua New Guinea

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
Tahir Kılıç

The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of participating in the school sports on the school motivation according to selected variables. 1463 secondary school students, 790 of whom were male (54%) and 673 female (46%), participated in the study with an age average of 12,46 ± 1.23 years. The school motivation levels of the students were determined via the "School Motivation Scale for the Secondary School Students", which was developed by Kaynak, Özhan and Kan (2017), comprising of 14 articles. The data of the study were analyzed through SPSS 15 package program. The school motivation levels of the students were positively influenced from their participation in school teams, in regular physical activities, in school social activity programs, and their attendance levels to the school (p<0.05). In order to increase the school motivation levels of the secondary school students, it was suggested that they should be encouraged to participate in school teams, they should be motivated for physical activities, they should be invited to school social activity programs, and necessary measures should be taken to minimize their absence from the school.


Author(s):  
Rajib Chakraborty

The present study is an attempt to provide a neural underpinning to the role of gender difference in the construct academic motivation, in secondary school students in Indian context. For this purpose, comparisons of students’ scores of the dimensions of academic motivation were carried out. Samples for the study include 49 urban students (24 boys and 25 girls ) of classes VIII and IX of secondary school in Sriram Nager of Hyderabad city, Telangana, India. Academic motivation construct is measured by using <italic>Academic Motivation Scale, High School Version (AMS-HS 28)</italic> for high school students prepared by Vallerand and et.al (1992). For data analysis, measures like mean, standard deviation are used. The significance of the test is calculated using t-test for the level of significance α at 0.05. The findings of the study reveal no differences between the genders in the measured dimensions of academic motivation.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adnan Tasgin ◽  
Yunus Tunc

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the secondary school students’ level of effectiveparticipation and their motivation. This study employs a survey consisting of 251 secondary school students from theschools located in Iğdır and Erzurum, in East of Turkey. The data of the study were gathered through "EffectiveParticipation Scale" and "Intrinsic-Extrinsic Motivation Scale". The analysis of the obtained data showed that femalesecondary school students are academically more engaged than the male students and male secondary schoolstudents are more disaffected than the female students. It has been found that students engage in English and Turkishlessons more than Mathematics and they are disaffected with Mathematics at most. It has been determined thatacademically engaged students’ intrinsic motivations increase in the positive direction while that of the disaffectedstudents’ decrease as the class levels increase.


Author(s):  
Faten A. Zahran ◽  
Edward Owusu

This paper examines the effect of shadow reading strategy on secondary school students’ listening comprehension skills and motivation. These participants, who constituted the human subjects for the study, were ninth-year students pursuing other subjects in Arabic and learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) as well. The research questions asked to accomplish the purpose of the study focused on: (1) Determining listening comprehension skills suitable for the EFL secondary school students; (2) Finding out differences in listening comprehension test regarding the experimental and control group; and (3) Finding out differences in listening motivation scale scores regarding experimental and control group. Three instruments – designed by the researchers – that include: (listening comprehension skills checklist, listening comprehension skills test and listening motivation scale) were used. Results showed that the regular method used to teach listening is not as significant as the shadow reading strategy that developed listening comprehension skills and motivation. Consequently, the experimental group students outperformed their counterparts (the control group) in listening comprehension skills and motivation scores.


2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinz Neber ◽  
Kurt A. Heller

Summary The German Pupils Academy (Deutsche Schüler-Akademie) is a summer-school program for highly gifted secondary-school students. Three types of program evaluation were conducted. Input evaluation confirmed the participants as intellectually highly gifted students who are intrinsically motivated and interested to attend the courses offered at the summer school. Process evaluation focused on the courses attended by the participants as the most important component of the program. Accordingly, the instructional approaches meet the needs of highly gifted students for self-regulated and discovery oriented learning. The product or impact evaluation was based on a multivariate social-cognitive framework. The findings indicate that the program contributes to promoting motivational and cognitive prerequisites for transforming giftedness into excellent performances. To some extent, the positive effects on students' self-efficacy and self-regulatory strategies are due to qualities of the learning environments established by the courses.


2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake Harwood ◽  
Laszlo Vincze

Based on the model of Reid, Giles and Abrams (2004 , Zeitschrift für Medienpsychologie, 16, 17–25), this paper describes and analyzes the relation between television use and ethnolinguistic-coping strategies among German speakers in South Tyrol, Italy. The data were collected among secondary school students (N = 415) in 2011. The results indicated that the television use of the students was dominated by the German language. A mediation analysis revealed that TV viewing contributed to the perception of ethnolinguistic vitality, the permeability of intergroup boundaries, and status stability, which in turn affected ethnolinguistic-coping strategies of mobility (moving toward the outgroup), creativity (maintaining identity without confrontation), and competition (fighting for ingroup rights and respect). Findings and theoretical implications are discussed.


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