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Measuring Motivation For Coursework Across The Academic Career: A Longitudinal Invariance Study, Makayla Grays
Measuring Motivation For Coursework Across The Academic Career: A Longitudinal Invariance Study, Makayla Grays
Dissertations, 2014-2019
Students must be sufficiently motivated in order to achieve the intended learning outcomes of their college courses. Research in education and psychology has found motivation to be context-dependent. Therefore, students’ motivation is likely to differ from one semester to the next according to which courses students are taking. However, there are also instances in which motivation levels may not change over time. In order to determine whether motivation for coursework changes across the academic career (and, if so, what variables may be related to that change), it is imperative to use a measure of motivation that is theoretically and psychometrically …
Assessing Intervention Fidelity In A Randomized Field Experiment: Illuminating The Black Box, Jeff John Kosovich
Assessing Intervention Fidelity In A Randomized Field Experiment: Illuminating The Black Box, Jeff John Kosovich
Masters Theses, 2010-2019
The inner workings of an intervention can be thought of as a black box when they are not investigated directly. Typically researchers do not fully illuminate the black box and make assumptions about the presence of underlying processes instead. The current study utilizes an adapted five-step framework for the systematic intervention fidelity assessment of a motivation-based field experiment. The five-step framework is applied to a previously implemented study of student motivation in an introductory psychology course. Data irregularities necessitated the introduction of a new method for calculating differences in achieved relative strength indices. The intervention was found to be implemented …