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Bakker, Monique (2015)

Motivatie voor rekenlessen bij leerlingen in het middelbaar beroepsonderwijs

Master thesis | Education and Child Studies (MSc)

Many studies have been conducted to define factors that enhance students motivation, but little is known about what sets students in Dutch vocational education to action. According to the Unified Model of Task-specific Motivation (UMTM; De Brabander & Martens, 2014) one of the factors that leads to readiness for action is the perceived freedom of action. Stefanou et al. (2004) subdivide freedom of action into three different kinds, of which only the cognitive freedom of action leads to more psychological effort. Therefore, the goal of this intervention study was to determine if an intervention that supports the cognitive freedom of action in arithmetic class enhances the perceived cognitive freedom of action and readiness for action of students in Dutch vocational education. To examine this, the cognitive freedom of action and readiness for action of 75 students in three different classes are measured twice weekly, during eight weeks. In the fifth and sixth week, two classes (49...Show moreMany studies have been conducted to define factors that enhance students motivation, but little is known about what sets students in Dutch vocational education to action. According to the Unified Model of Task-specific Motivation (UMTM; De Brabander & Martens, 2014) one of the factors that leads to readiness for action is the perceived freedom of action. Stefanou et al. (2004) subdivide freedom of action into three different kinds, of which only the cognitive freedom of action leads to more psychological effort. Therefore, the goal of this intervention study was to determine if an intervention that supports the cognitive freedom of action in arithmetic class enhances the perceived cognitive freedom of action and readiness for action of students in Dutch vocational education. To examine this, the cognitive freedom of action and readiness for action of 75 students in three different classes are measured twice weekly, during eight weeks. In the fifth and sixth week, two classes (49 students) received an intervention to support cognitive freedom of action, the other class served as an active control. Multilevel analysis showed that in these two weeks the students in the intervention group perceived more cognitive freedom of action, but not more readiness for action than before and after the intervention. This change in cognitive freedom of action was not visible in the control group. This tells us the a teacher can influence the perceived cognitive freedom of action of students, but enhancing readiness for action is more difficult. One possible explanation is that because students in vocational education do not respond to the support of cognitive freedom of action as do many other previous studied target groups in education, but further research is needed to explore this possibility.Show less

motivatie

mbo

rekenen

cognitieve autonomie

interventie

experiment

Author

Bakker, Monique

Faculty

Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences

Specialisation

Education and Child Studies

Supervisors

Stroet, Kim

ECTS Credits

20

Language

nl