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Impact Of Student Motivation In Online Learning Activities, Amy Lathrop
Impact Of Student Motivation In Online Learning Activities, Amy Lathrop
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
With the prevalence of online learning in education for both distance and campus-based students, it is critical to determine how to design electronic learning materials that tailor to student motivation and facilitate learning. Students were asked to complete an online plant breeding activity, motivation survey and an online learning quiz related to the activity. The control group of students was those who elected not to complete the activity, while the experimental group of students chose to complete the activity. Motivation scores were compared between control and experiment groups, courses, and gender using independent sample t-tests. Pearson correlations were also used …