Measuring Motivation in Educational Settings: A Case for Pragmatic Measurement
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- Title
- Measuring Motivation in Educational Settings: A Case for Pragmatic Measurement
- Abstract/Description
- A reality of conducting motivation research in educational settings is that there are tensions between technical standards of research and practical constraints of a given situation. Although adherence to standards for high-quality measurement is critical for good-quality data to be collected, measurement also requires substantial resources to ensure quality. In the current chapter, we discuss several examples of real data collected in different educational settings using a pragmatic measurement framework. Based on contemporary measurement perspectives, the pragmatic measurement framework emphasizes building evidence-based arguments to support the use and interpretation of a measure. Example 1 explores college students’ attitudes toward general education classes. Example 2 tracks students’ classroom motivation over several time points. Example 3 assesses experimental differences from an online motivation intervention. Together the three examples cover a range of possible research questions that researchers may encounter. As a whole, this chapter demonstrates that important and meaningful insights can be gained using pragmatic approaches to measurement. Importantly, we discuss the trade-offs that researchers or other measure users must consider when adopting a pragmatic approach to measurement.
- Date
- In publication
- The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning
- Editor
- Renninger, K. Ann
- Hidi, Suzanne E.
- Series
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- Pages
- 713-738
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Resource type
- en Research/Scholarly Media
- Scholarship genre
- en Empirical
- IRE Approach/Concept
- Practical Measures
- Validity
- Open access/full-text available
- en Yes
- ISBN
- 978-1-107-17793-2
- URL
- Official Publisher's Webpage (Cambridge University Press)
- Full-Text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)
- Citation
- Kosovich, J. J., Hulleman, C. S., & Barron, K. E. (2019). Measuring Motivation in Educational Settings: A Case for Pragmatic Measurement. In K. A. Renninger & S. E. Hidi (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning (pp. 713–738). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316823279.030
- Cited in
- Measurement for Improvement
- Place
- Cambridge
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