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Measuring styles of learning and motivation |
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| Authors: | Noel Entwistle Béla Kozéki Alistair Pollitt |
| Institution: | 1. Department of Education, University of Edinburgh, 10 Buccleuch Place, EH8 9JT, Edinburgh, U.K. 2. Institute of Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PF 398, H-1394, Budapest, Hungary 3. Godfrey Thomson Research Unit, University of Edinburgh, 24 Buccleuch Place, EH8 9JT, Edinburgh, U.K. |
| Abstract: | The theoretical basis, the development and the use of an inventory designed to measure styles of learning and motivation are described. On the basis of previous research, items within the inventory were located on 20 sub-scales. The ten motivation sub-scales were derived from a theory of school motivation which was based on extensive interview and inventory work carried out in Hungary with children, their parents and teachers. The ten scales describing styles of learning were derived from concepts describing learning approaches and styles which emerged from interviews and experimental research with students in British and Swedish higher education. Versions were prepared in both English and Hungarian and given to samples of 614 British and 579 Hungarian pupils aged between 13 and 17 years. A remarkably similar factor structure was obtained in each sample. An analysis of mean scores indicated distinctive differences both between boys and girls, and between British and Hungarian pupils. Cluster analysis was used to investigate the possible existence of styles which combined both approaches to learning and aspects of school motivation. The potentiality of the inventory for use in conjunction with study skills courses is discussed. |
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