Dear all,
What tool can be used to measure motivation in scholars, teachers and students who are in home isolation or work remotely?
Any specific tool suitable for all people involved in Academia and Education? Or any brief standard measure to investigate motivation?
This question rised from a recent talk with my colleague, who expressed a bit of regret about students' lack of attention (camera offs, chating with smb else) via Zoom classes.
Moreover, many scientists and school teachers have admitted this on social media or even in Nature column (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01292-x).
Please, share your thoughts. Thank you.
Dear Anastasia Peshkovskaya I agree with the statements by Cheza Olmoguez and Bulcsu Szekely
Regards!
Through evaluating how much scholars, teachers, and students are actively engaged in online teaching and learning! Interactive activities are one effective way of doing it and could be used as both an evaluation and intervening tool.
It is a good question.
As you know motivation is a psychological variable and It is not easy to measure It even in direct or online learning. During pandemic, motivation maybe observed by how many times following platforms and virtual interactions by teachers and students. Also, the students' responses toward tasks and assignments are considered as a strong indicators to detect motivation.
Dear colleagues Mauro Luisetto Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak Shaher Elayyan ,
Thanks for your answers. Yes, we obviously can suggest that certain task responses express certain (e.g. low) motivation level. Perhaps.
However, there can be other variables which affect how students reponse to a task. Is there any specific measurement to evaluate their motivation to work in pandemic?
In case it should be a survey on students/ teachers motivation, what questions will you ask?
From their performance behavior offline or online doesn't matter.
Hi!
I would recommend using the Flow in Education Scale or EduFlow Scale. It measures learner's cognitive absorption and experience of well-being in a specific learning activity, such as online learning.
Dear Dr. Peshkovskaya!
You raised a very important problem. I do not know any other solution that there should be a database full with articles and an independent international scientific research group should develop a tool. Here are some studies to start with:
1) Alanna Gillis, Laura M. Krull (2020). COVID-19 Remote Learning Transition in Spring 2020: Class Structures, Student Perceptions, and Inequality in College Courses, Teaching Sociology 2020, Vol. 48(4) 283–299 © American Sociological Association 2020 , Open Access:
Article COVID-19 Remote Learning Transition in Spring 2020: Class St...
2) Bin Wang et al. (2020). Achieving Effective Remote Working During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Work Design Perspective, Applied Psychology Open Access:
Article Achieving Effective Remote Working During the COVID‐19 Pande...
3) Czerniewicz, L., Agherdien, N., Badenhorst, J. et al. A Wake-Up Call: Equity, Inequality and Covid-19 Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning. Postdigit Sci Educ 2, 946–967 (2020). Open Access:
Article A Wake-Up Call: Equity, Inequality and Covid-19 Emergency Re...
4) A case-study from Qatar:
Hussain, F.N., Al-Mannai, R. & Agouni, A. An Emergency Switch to Distance Learning in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from an Internationally Accredited Undergraduate Pharmacy Program at Qatar University. Med.Sci.Educ. 30, 1393–1397 (2020) Open Access:
Article An Emergency Switch to Distance Learning in Response to the ...
5) Ana Uka and Arban Uka (2020). The Effect of Students’ Experience with the Transition from Primary to Secondary School on Self-Regulated Learning and Motivation, Sustainability 2020, 12(20), 8519 Open Access:
Article The Effect of Students’ Experience with the Transition from ...
Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
Dear Dr. Cheza Olmoguez ,
Thanks for providing the Education Scale here. It is a good meausure for a non-direct investigation of motivation and process satisfaction.
Dear Dr. Bulcsu Szekely ,
Thank you for such a detailed answer. I couldn't agree with you more on creating a database and starting large research project in this field. Pandemic changes the reality. Interdisciplinary and cross-national research collaboration is of urgent need today. I am certain, many of our colleagues from education, e-learning, psychoogy, and related fields look for it (Do they?).
Thanks again for sharing articles.
best wishes,
Anastasia
Dear Anastasia Peshkovskaya I agree with the statements by Cheza Olmoguez and Bulcsu Szekely
Regards!
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