A classroom-based intervention to help teachers decrease students' amotivation
- Authors
- Cheon, Sung Hyeon; Reeve, Johnmarshall
- Issue Date
- 1월-2015
- Publisher
- ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
- Keywords
- Amotivation; Autonomy support; Intervention; Physical education; Self-determination theory; Teacher training
- Citation
- CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, v.40, pp.99 - 111
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
- Volume
- 40
- Start Page
- 99
- End Page
- 111
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/94723
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2014.06.004
- ISSN
- 0361-476X
- Abstract
- Student amotivation is a state of motivational apathy in which students harbor little or no reason to engage in classroom learning activities; it is a motivational deficit that is strongly associated with maladaptive functioning. Using a self-determination theory framework, we designed and implemented a teacher-focused intervention to help experienced teachers develop a motivating style that could increase students' psychological need satisfaction and decrease their psychological need frustration, which are the twin causes of level of amotivation. Sixteen secondary school physical education teachers were randomly assigned into either an experimental or a control group, and their 598 students reported their need satisfaction, amotivation, and engagement at the beginning, middle, and end of a semester. Compared to teachers in the control group, teachers in the experimental group were scored by objective raters and perceived by students as more autonomy supportive and as less controlling. The students of the teachers in the experimental group reported greater psychological need satisfaction, greater engagement, and lesser amotivation than did students of teachers in the control group. We conclude that the intervention was successful in helping teachers decrease student amotivation. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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