Thesis education motivating students motivation and performance students.

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3 Thesis education motivating students’ motivation and performance students.Summary This research was conducted at School X in grade Y. The school must deal with the problem of unmotivated learners and low results. The children are not motivated to learn, have unmotivated attitudes, and they show unruly behavior during classes. They don’t do their homework; they don’t listen to the teacher and they bully each other during class. The children are from x and have an unmotivated environment. The following research question was set by reference to the problem: “How can a teacher from School X stimulate the autonomous motivation of children of grade Y from an unmotivated environment?”.Literature has been studied and questionnaires administered to teachers and students to get an answer to this question. Also, there are two lessons, the one lesson the children received free choices in the processing of the material, the other lesson they did not.Research has shown that structure, autonomy support, and interaction improve the three psychological needs: competence, autonomy, and relatedness (Deci & Ryan, 2020). The experiment proved that working with the direct instruction model provides structure and that giving free choices in the processing of the material improved motivation and performance. 2 / 6

4 Thesis education motivating students’ motivation and performance students.Content Introduction.........................................................................................................................................6

• Problem analysis.............................................................................................................................7

1.1 Practical problem.......................................................................................................................7 1.2 Relevance of the research.........................................................................................................7

• Theoretical framework....................................................................................................................8

2.1 The education system of PLACE.................................................................................................8 2.2 Motivation theory.....................................................................................................................10 Operant conditioning..................................................................................................................10 Basic needs.................................................................................................................................10 Self-determine theory.................................................................................................................12 2.3 Ecological System Theory........................................................................................................15

• Problem statement........................................................................................................................16

3.1 Research objectives.................................................................................................................16 3.2 Main question & research questions........................................................................................16

3.2.1 Research questions............................................................................................................16

3.3 Hypothesis...............................................................................................................................16

• Research strategy.........................................................................................................................17

4.1 Research group........................................................................................................................17 4.2 The Data collection method.....................................................................................................18

4.2.1 Survey................................................................................................................................18

4.2.2 Observe..............................................................................................................................18

4.3 Plan of action...........................................................................................................................18

4.3.1 Research activities.............................................................................................................19

4.3.2 Implementation..................................................................................................................20

4.3.3 Planning.............................................................................................................................21

• Results...........................................................................................................................................23

Sub question 1...............................................................................................................................23 Data collection............................................................................................................................23 Subscale scores..........................................................................................................................23 Relative autonomy index............................................................................................................24 Sub question 2...............................................................................................................................24 Data collection............................................................................................................................24 The influence of teachers............................................................................................................24 Results questionnaires................................................................................................................25 Highlights observations...............................................................................................................27 Sub question 3...............................................................................................................................27 Data collection............................................................................................................................27 3 / 6

5 Thesis education motivating students’ motivation and performance students.The influence of parents.............................................................................................................28 Sub question 4...............................................................................................................................28 Data collection............................................................................................................................28 Autonomy support during lessons..............................................................................................28 The work of the children.............................................................................................................30 Children’s reaction......................................................................................................................30 Math teachers’ reaction..............................................................................................................30

• Conclusions, recommendations and discussion............................................................................31

6.1 Conclusion................................................................................................................................31 6.2 Recommendations...................................................................................................................33 6.3 Discussion................................................................................................................................34 Bibliography......................................................................................................................................35 Appendix A, Logbook and reflection..................................................................................................37 Appendix B, Letter principal School X...............................................................................................37 Appendix C, Questionnaire children..................................................................................................37 Appendix D, Questionnaire teachers.................................................................................................39 Appendix E, Observe scheme............................................................................................................42 Appendix F, Lesson plan Control lesson............................................................................................44 Appendix G, Lesson plan Experiment................................................................................................46 Appendix H, Worksheet Control lesson.............................................................................................48 Appendix I, Worksheets Experiment lesson......................................................................................51 4 / 6