Yuanyuan Zhu,Diana Dolmans,Rashmi A Kusurkar,S Eleonore Köhler,Latifa Abidi,Hans Savelberg
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Abstract
PURPOSE
Autonomous motivation is important for university students, but it remains a challenge to stimulate their autonomous motivation for their curricula. We developed an extracurricular intervention (Societal Impact Project) with basic psychological needs supportive characteristics such as learning with self-defined problems relevant to curriculum and society, collaborative group work, and coaching by a teacher. This study aims at evaluating the intervention in fostering students' autonomous motivation for their regular curricula.
METHODS
We conducted a quasi-experimental study, using between-group pre- and post-test design. Participants from the intervention and control group completed a survey before and after the intervention, which measured the satisfaction of three basic psychological needs, autonomous motivation, controlled motivation, enjoyment, value, and well-being within their regular curricula. We compared the post-test differences between the two groups while controlling for pre-test scores.
RESULTS
Students in the intervention group had greater enjoyment in their regular curricula and perceived their regular curricula to have more value compared to students in the control group. The other variables did not differ significantly between the two groups in the post-test.
CONCLUSION
The intervention is effective for improving students' enjoyment and perceived value in their regular curricula. The variables with non-significant differences indicate the difficulty to alter students' basic psychological needs and motivation in their regular curricula, even after participating in a long-term intervention.
期刊介绍:
Medical Teacher provides accounts of new teaching methods, guidance on structuring courses and assessing achievement, and serves as a forum for communication between medical teachers and those involved in general education. In particular, the journal recognizes the problems teachers have in keeping up-to-date with the developments in educational methods that lead to more effective teaching and learning at a time when the content of the curriculum—from medical procedures to policy changes in health care provision—is also changing. The journal features reports of innovation and research in medical education, case studies, survey articles, practical guidelines, reviews of current literature and book reviews. All articles are peer reviewed.