Achievements in games are assumed to be extrinsic motivators yet this has not been shown to be the case experimentally. This study attempts to determine whether achievements exhibit characteristics more closely related to intrinsic or extrinsic motivators. An experiment was conducted in order to examine the effects of Achievements in a controlled environment. It was found that Achievements show...

background: motivation is a driver to health worker performance in most ghanaian hospitals. in view of this, ghana’s ministry of health has rolled out enough motivational policies to accentuate work performance of health workers. objective: the focus of this study was to examine the impact of motivation and identify how intrinsic and extrinsic motivating factors affect the work performance of h...

Biology students traditionally use a textbook in the field and on courses to identify species, but now a new mobile-application tool has been developed as an alternative. Guided by Self-Determination Theory (SDT) we conducted an experimental study to test the effect of the mobile-application, relative to the traditional textbook, on students' intrinsic motivation, perceived competence, and achi...

Students can be proactive and engaged or, alternatively, lack initiative and responsibility for their learning. Self-regulated learning involves learning strategies and mental processes that learners deliberately engage to help themselves learn and perform better academically. The results of this study provide empirical support for the theoretical relationships among cognitive evaluation theory...

Title of Document: THE EFFECTS OF CONSTRUCTS OF MOTIVATION THAT AFFIRM AND UNDERMINE READING ACHIEVEMENT INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL ON MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS’ READING ACHIEVEMENT Cassandra Shular Coddington, Ph.D., 2009 Directed By: Professor Allan Wigfield, Department of Human Development The purpose of this study was to examine whether motivation for reading was multidimensional in two resp...

This study investigated gender, age group and locality differences in adolescent athletes' self-determination motivation and goal orientations in track and field. It also examined the relationship between the self-determination theory and achievement goal theory. A total of 632 (349 boys, 283 girls) adolescent athletes (aged 13-18 years) completed the Sports Motivation Scale and Task and Ego Or...

In humans, intrinsic motives help us to identify, prioritize, select and adapt the goals we will pursue. A variety of computational models of intrinsic motives have been developed for artificial agents including curiosity, achievement, affiliation and power motivation. Previous research has focused on using models of intrinsic motivation in individual agents, such as developmental robots or vir...

introduction: students are often similar in terms of learning ability and talent. however, there are remarkable differences in their academic performance during their schooling, which can be due to the differences in their academic motivation and achievement motivation. the current study was carried out to compare achievement motivation and academic achievement among the students of kermanshah ...

knowledge transfer was the most important factors of success for organizations in today's complex and changing environment as one of aspects of knowledge management. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation by transfer the employee’s knowledge in social security organizations in kerman. the method research is descriptiv...