Assessing Adolescents' Motivation to Read

• In Event: Poster Session 13
  In Poster Session: Motivation in Education SIG Poster Session 2

Abstract

Though reading motivation is an important concept for instructional design, the instrument most commonly used to measure students’ reading motivation was created before the popularization of digital reading, and was designed for students in upper elementary grades. The researcher adapts Wigfield and Guthrie’s (1997) Motivation to Read Questionnaire (MRQ) and combines it with original items inspired by mixed-methods research on reading motivation, to create a new, quantitative instrument for adolescents (N = 204). The study examines the extent to which the original MRQ scales hold together, and investigates the potential for additional motivational constructs not addressed by the MRQ. Factor analysis upholds 7 of the 11 original MRQ dimensions, and reveals three new constructs distinct from the MRQ.

Author

• Lauren Zucker, Fordham Graduate School of Education