Journal title RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA
Author/s Marianna Alesi, Annamaria Pepi
Publishing Year 2013 Issue 2011/3
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 341-359 File size 503 KB
DOI 10.3280/RIP2011-003002
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School learning motivation is a crucial psychological process in developmental and education psychology. An issue widely discussed in current literature, regarding the theoretical and empirical domains, deals with methodologies aimed at evaluating motivational components. According to a broad definition of school motivational profile, including variables such as self-esteem, self-efficacy, personal conceptions of intelligence, achievement goals, a number of instruments has been developed for decades. The international literature underlies how motivation research has developed a strong tradition of self-report methodologies. In this paper we discuss advantages and limits of self-report instruments and we describe different measurement approaches such as phenomenological, neuropsychological/ psysiological, behavioural approach. It is worth emphasizing that a single approach is unable to capture the multidimensional nature of student’s learning motivation. So alternative multi-method approaches, integrating the above-mentioned measurement strategies, are necessary to optimize the analysis of motivational profile and generate new knowledge. To date, these new methods raise to several critical questions concerning epistemological issues about the theoretical framework which are able to describe more deeply developmental processes and disambiguate findings from single approaches.
Keywords: Assessment, motivation, self-reports, test.
Marianna Alesi, Annamaria Pepi, L’assessment del profilo motivazionale scolastico in "RICERCHE DI PSICOLOGIA " 3/2011, pp 341-359, DOI: 10.3280/RIP2011-003002