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Issues Of Online Distance Education: Learning Motivation Of Current And Prospective School Teachers, Anna Toom
Issues Of Online Distance Education: Learning Motivation Of Current And Prospective School Teachers, Anna Toom
Graduate School of Education Publications and Research
In this work, LM in three categories of students – motivated, unmotivated and overmotivated – was explored. Fifty graduate students, which were current and prospective school teachers and took the author’s online psychology courses in 2012-2013, participated in the study. The research methodology included developing the rules of coding students’ course work, designing the 100-scale of LM for representing their individual as well as collective data, and collecting info about students’ academic achievement in this course. According to the results, students’ LM has two co-existing components – pragmatic (grade-oriented) and cognitive (knowledge-oriented). Three mentioned categories of students differ in quantity …