Title: Student Motivation and Study Strategies in University and College of Advanced Education Populations
Abstract: ABSTRACT A "study process complex" comprising three major motives (instrumental, intrinsic and achievement) and three cognate learning/study strategies (reproducing, meaning and organising), is described. The Study Process Questionnaire (SPQ) is an instrument designed to tap these motives and strategies in tertiary students. It is hypothesized that patterns of motivations and study strategies would be typically different between students in colleges of advanced education (CAE's) and universities, given the natures of these two sectors of tertiary education. The SPQ was administered to over 2,000 students in five universities and nine CAE's in five states, and students' motive and strategy scores were compared. University students were found to be more intrinsically motivated, and more likely to use meaning and organising strategies. CAE students were more instrumentally motivated and more likely to use the reproductive strategy. University students who rated themselves "excellent" were intrinsically motivated; while CAE students in this category were highly organised. Greatest institutional differences were found in teacher education. These findings are highly compatible with the aims and functions of the two types of institutions, and have particular relevance to the issues of end‐on vs. concurrent programmes of teacher education, and enforced university/college amalgamations.
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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