Development of an App to Assess Student Motivation

• In Event: AERA Poster Session 6
  In Poster Session: Motivation in Education SIG Poster Session: Process, Methods, and Outcomes

Abstract

Expectancy-Value Theory and Achievement Goal Theory have served as the dominant motivational theories over the past three decades. Although their constructs still apply to today's schools, paper-and-pencil methods of data collection are antiquated, as is some of the language used in the most common measures of motivation. The present study piloted an application-based measure of mathematics motivation with 610 middle school students. The 40-item measure required about 10 minutes to complete, and demonstrated preliminary evidence of the expected factor structure, internal consistency reliability, and test-retest reliability. Future research will consider potential revisions of the measure, in the hopes of finalizing a tool that can be used by students in real-time to track their levels of motivation in particular subjects.

Author

• Bridget V. Dever, Lehigh University