Motivation and Relationship of the Student with the School as Factors Involved in the Perceived Learning

✍ Scribed by Manuela Ferreira; Ana Paula Cardoso; José Luís Abrantes

• Book ID: 113888972
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 458 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1877-0428
• DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.11.416

✦ Synopsis

Motivation should be seen as a very important factor in the learning process. The motivated student has the inner strength to learn, to discover and capitalize on capabilities, to improve academic performance and to adapt to the demands of the school context. Contextual factors like the psychological sense of school membership may be also especially important to students' classroom engagement, their motivation and learning success. So with this study we intend to examine how the sense of school belonging and intrinsic motivation influences perceived learning. A structural model reveals that the negative sense of school belonging has a negative impact on intrinsic motivation and on perceived learning. In turn, intrinsic motivation positively and significantly influences perceived learning in the course.