This project analyzed the change in academic motivation for 200 students from WPI based on data obtained from the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education (WNS). This report identified factors which influence a student's change in academic motivation and examined the validity of the Academic Motivation Scale in the WNS. Academic motivation decreased over freshman year in these 200 students. It decreased further in the 17 students who retook the scale in 2011. Male students were more likely to decrease in academic motivation than female students. There was a relationship between the change in academic motivation and student-faculty interactions. Intrinsic motivation in the 200 students had a significantly greater decrease than extrinsic motivation.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Shen, Xiao
• Sakhuja, Shubham
• Bin Amir, Syed Athar
• Lemonds, Charles Robert

Subject

• Learning
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-102411-105403

Keyword

• Women in engineering
• Education, Higher

Advisor

• Heinricher, Arthur C.

Year

• 2011

Date created

• 2011-10-24

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright