motivation is perhaps the most frequently used term for explaining the success and failure of educational tasks. numerous studies have shown that motivation is a key to learning (gardner and lambert, 1972). however, such experiments give us an understanding of what motivation is and what the components of motivation are. but they usually fail to reveal that someone is motivated or how we can cr...

Wehrspann, Elizabeth A. M.S., Purdue University, August 2014. The Nature of Parental Involvement in Middle School: Examining Nonlinear Associations. Major Professor: Aryn Dotterer. Middle school is a time during which the importance of school performance and academic motivation increases, yet actual adolescent achievement and motivation tend to decline during this period. Extent research and th...

Considering the importance yet paucity of help-seeking in e-learning, the present study investigated the motivational antecedents of help-seeking among online college students. We explored and compared the influences of achievement approach goals from the old and new achievement motivation models (Elliot & McGregor, 2001; Elliot, Murayama, & Pekrun, 2011) on online students’ help-seeking throug...

Introduction:Using cell phone has become an inseparable part of the life in the recent years. In spite of the useful usage of the cell phone, its constant over-use makes the field for people’s addiction and harms. The purpose of the present research is to analyze the relation between the cell phone’s scale and the way of use with the motivation of educational progress among the female students’...