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The Cultivation of Primary School Students’ Learning Motivation:a Five-year Longitudinal Study

JIA Xiao-juan1, HU Wei-ping1,2, WU Bao-jun1   

  1. 1. Center for Teacher Professional Ability Development, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710062;
    2. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2012-03-15 Published:2012-03-15

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Abstract: The present study adopted cross-sequential design,explored the changing trends of primary school students'learning motivation and the effects of the "Learn to Think" curriculum.Participants were primary school students from Grade 1 to Grade 3,who were randomly ascribed to experimental and control groups.Experimental group students attended the LTT for four years,and the delayed effects were measured one year after terminating the intervention.The results suggested that(1)the surface motivation and achievement motivation showed a descending trend,while the deep motivation showed an ascending first and then descending trend.(2)Boys' surface motivation and achievement motivation were significantly higher than that of girls.(3)The higher the grade was,the lower children's surface motivation,deep motivation and achievement motivation were.(4)After oneyear intervention,the experimental group students'deep motivation was significantly higher than the control group students',and delayed effects were significant.

Key words: Primary School Students, Learning Motivation, Longitudinal Study, Hierarchical Linear Model

CLC Number: 

  • G441
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