A study on factors that influence junior high school students’learning motivation: from personal, parental, and family dimensions

• Main Authors: Hsieh, Hsin-Ru, 謝欣如
• Other Authors: Hwang, Yi-Ting
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81314654234525233074

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 統計學系 === 96 === During the teaching process, students with good telent have been found to be very passive in learning. As a result, the instructors often feel very depressed about their performance in school. The purposes of the study are (1) to investigate factors that influence junior high school students’ learning motivation in turns of personal, parental, and family dimensions, and (2) to find the most influential factors that are associated with students’ learning motivation. The results can serve as a reference for both the parents and school teachers to provide lowly motivated students with appropriate preventive counseling. The study is based on the samples from the junior high school student population in Taiwan collected by the Taiwan Educational Panel Survey. Using the cumulative logit model, the key factors that are associated with students’ learning motivation include gender, the expected level of education that respondents want to achieve, parents’ marital status, respondent’s academic performance in class, the expected level of education that respondents’ parents want them to achieve, the time on task, the time spent on the Internet, and the reading time that respondent’s mother spends per week. Specifically, female students demonstrate higher level of learning motivation than their male counterparts. Students who want to achieve higher level of education show an increasing level of motivation. Students from a sound family are better motivated than those whose parents are widowed, divorced, separated, or unmarried. Students demonstrating higher academic performance show a higher level of motivation. Students whose parents anticipate a higher level of education of their children show a higher level of motivation. Students who spend more time on task and less time on the Internet show stronger learning motivation. Depending upon the performance of the respondents in the class, the higher the performance of the respondents in the class, the more the mother spends time in reading at home. To enhance children’s learning motivation, parents can provide them with a sound family, a nurturing environment, and cultivate them a good attitude toward learning, proper conduct, and study habit. For example, parents should make sure their children having sufficient study time, limiting their Internet surfing duration, and having reasonable expectations of their children. The school teachers should encourage and motivate their students so that they can establish their confidence. After all, the purpose of education is to let citizens have the abilities in lifelong learning. Also having the learning motivation is the key attitude to pursue the self-growth.