Motivation and engagement in young children : how well does a high school conceptualization generalize to junior school?

Andrew J. Martin; Rhonda Craven; Geoff Munns

Motivation and engagement in young children : how well does a high school conceptualization generalize to junior school?

Andrew J. Martin
, Rhonda Craven
, Geoff Munns

School of Education

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper

Abstract

The bulk of empirical research into student motivation and engagement has focused on high school students. Models and instrumentation abound in high school research conducted over the past four decades. The Motivation and Engagement Wheel and its associated instrument, the Motivation and Engagement Scale" High School (MES-HS; Martin, 2001, 2003, 2006a, in press), are recent offerings in this line of research. Previous work has validated the Wheel and demonstrated the psychometric properties of the MES-HS among high school students. The present study assesses the extent to which these findings are mirrored in younger students. Accordingly, the Motivation and Engagement Scale" Junior School (MES-JS; Martin, 2006b) was administered to 368 students in Years 5 and 6 in five Australian urban and rural junior (elementary/primary) schools. Factor structure, reliability, and the distributional properties of the scales were under focus with the particular purpose of assessing how well the high school conceptualization and instrumentation generalizes to junior school. Taken together, findings demonstrated a very good fit of the hypothesized model and instrument to junior school students.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Fourth International Biennial SELF Research Conference. Ann Arbor, US, 23rd - 26th July, 2006. Proceedings: Self-concept, Motivation, Social and Personal Identity for the 21st century
Publisher	University of Western Sydney, SELF Research Centre
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Print)	1741081483
Publication status	Published - 2006
Event	International Biennial SELF Research Conference - Duration: 13 Jan 2009 → …

Conference

Conference	International Biennial SELF Research Conference
Period	13/01/09 → …

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education

Keywords

motivation in education
research
methodology
school children
high school students
attitudes

Cite this

Martin, A. J., Craven, R., & Munns, G. (2006). Motivation and engagement in young children : how well does a high school conceptualization generalize to junior school? In Fourth International Biennial SELF Research Conference. Ann Arbor, US, 23rd - 26th July, 2006. Proceedings: Self-concept, Motivation, Social and Personal Identity for the 21st century University of Western Sydney, SELF Research Centre.

Martin, Andrew J. ; Craven, Rhonda ; Munns, Geoff. / Motivation and engagement in young children : how well does a high school conceptualization generalize to junior school?. Fourth International Biennial SELF Research Conference. Ann Arbor, US, 23rd - 26th July, 2006. Proceedings: Self-concept, Motivation, Social and Personal Identity for the 21st century. University of Western Sydney, SELF Research Centre, 2006.

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Martin, AJ, Craven, R & Munns, G 2006, Motivation and engagement in young children : how well does a high school conceptualization generalize to junior school? in Fourth International Biennial SELF Research Conference. Ann Arbor, US, 23rd - 26th July, 2006. Proceedings: Self-concept, Motivation, Social and Personal Identity for the 21st century. University of Western Sydney, SELF Research Centre, International Biennial SELF Research Conference, 13/01/09.

Motivation and engagement in young children : how well does a high school conceptualization generalize to junior school? / Martin, Andrew J.; Craven, Rhonda; Munns, Geoff.
Fourth International Biennial SELF Research Conference. Ann Arbor, US, 23rd - 26th July, 2006. Proceedings: Self-concept, Motivation, Social and Personal Identity for the 21st century. University of Western Sydney, SELF Research Centre, 2006.