The Effectiveness of Proposed Strategy to Enhance ‎Motivation Orientations for Common First Year ‎Students in King Saud University

Abstract

This research work aims to examine how far a proposed strategy is effective in developing KSU Common First Year students’ motivations. The researcher used a quantitative method. The sample was selected from the 3-credit-hour (CUR 101) course students at KSU CFY. The researcher’s two classes had 88 students divided equally between the control group and the pilot group. Pre and post measurements took place before and after applying the strategy respectively. Key results came as follows: there is a “0,05” difference in the average motivations of the post measurement in favor of the Experimental group, with the exception of the easy work dimension of the secondary measurement of external attitude, where differences were not statistically significant at 0,05 < 0,254. The results showed also a difference in the average motivations of the pilot group when the pre and post measurements have 0,05 difference in favor of the pilot study. The Univariate Analysis of variance showed statistically significant differences of 0,05 with an impact 0.14 in favor of the pilot group. This indicates the strategy impact on identifying differences between the pre and post measurements of the Experimental group on the one hand, and its impact in identifying differences between the pilot and control group in favor of the Experimental group on the other hand. The research recommends that educators should teach their students the learning strategies that contribute to enhancing their learning motivations.