Code
01D18822
Duration
01 October 2022 → 30 September 2026
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Motivation and emotion
- Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogics
- Secondary education
- Methodology of pedagogical and educational research
Keywords
Test-taking motivation
Low-stakes educational research
Self-Determination Theory
Achievement Goal Theory
Project description
There is a need for a comprehensive approach to test-taking motivation that attends participants' motives and goals. This research aims to:
(1) Offer a methodological, conceptual alternative with a new instrument as unique predictor of testperformance.
(2) Investigate characteristics that influence test-taking motivation and test-performance on Central Assessments.
(3) Determine how schools influence test-taking motivation by framing Central Assessments.