Students' intrinsic motivation in the context of their level of engagement in physics experimentation
2023
Abstract
The contribution focuses on exploring upper secondary students' intrinsic motivation and its predictors in relation to different student engagement in experimental activities. The data were collected via a questionnaire based on the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory and analysed using Welch's one-way ANOVA.
Three experimental activities were compared: (1) lecture demonstrations with low student engagement, (2) science show with higher student engagement and (3) students' hands-on experimentation. Respondents' perception of these activities is as follows: (1) lowest interest, lowest effort, medium value, (2) highest interest, medium effort, lowest value and (3) medium interest, highest effort, highest value.