An interview study of college freshmens’ beliefs about their academic motivation |
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Authors: | Shawn van Etten Michael Pressley Geoffrey Freebern Marissa Echevarria |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Educational Psychology and Statistics, University at Albany, State University of New York, 12222, Albany, NY, USA 2. Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, 46556, Notre Dame, IN, USA
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Abstract: | An important aspect of metacognition, one potentially affecting much of students’ academic efforts, was tapped in this study. College students’ beliefs about their academic motivation were elicited systematically using ethnographic interviewing. We reasoned that students are very conscious of their decisionmaking regarding academics, and thus, they would be able to report on many of the factors affecting their academic motivation. In general, the students reported that many factors affect their academic motivation, specifically, many more factors than have been considered in previous theoretical analyses of academic motivation, with students perceiving that interactions between motivational factors often are critically determinative of academic efforts and achievement. |
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