Abstract

MARCHIORE, Lara de Windson Oliveira Almeida  and  ALENCAR, Eunice Maria Lima Soriano de. Motivação para aprender em alunos do ensino médio. ETD [online]. 2009, vol.10, n.numeroespecial, pp.105-123. ISSN 1676-2592.

The present study investigated High School students’ perception about their motivation to learn. The participants were 364 students, being 160 from a private school and 204 from a public school located in a city of Minas Gerais state. High School Students’ Motivation to Learn Evaluation Scale was completed by the participants. The results indicated that the items with the highest means were study what will be evaluated in the test and study difficult issues. It was observed that male students and those from the private school obtained significantly higher means both in intrinsic and extrinsic motivation comparing to female students and those from the public school. The interactions between gender and type of school in the two modalities of motivation investigated were not significant.

Keywords : Motivation; Students; High School.

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