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Motivating final year engineering students to become deep learners
Author
Lie, Tek Tjing
Supervisor
Chang, Agnes Shook Cheong
Abstract
University students are expected to have their own intrinsic motivation in taking initiative in the learning process. Every student has his or her own way of choosing his or her path to reach the summit of knowledge. The lecturers or tutors, however, play an important role in guiding and supporting the students to achieve their goals. More importantly, the lecturers or tutors are the motivators. The effectiveness of the students' learning strategies depends on how the students are intrinsically motivated in learning the subjects.
The students intrinsic motivation can be influenced or enhanced by the lecturers or tutors teaching methodologies. Thus, some information from the students is required in order to assess their perceptions and learning approaches. In addition, students' learning is more effective and efficient when the students have explicit, reasonable, positive goals or objectives, and when their goals or objectives match well with the lecturers' goals or objectives. Thus, the design of the curriculum is very important in the aspect of motivating students' learning. It is also important how the students are being assessed and evaluated. The ways of students study and learn are very much affected by the way they are being assessed and evaluated.
The main objective of this study is as follows:
(i) to determine the factors that can motivate or de-motivate the students in the effective learning of engineering subjects;
(ii) to improve teaching methodologies by incorporating tasks or activities that can enhance the students intrinsic motivation in learning these subjects more effectively and avoiding or improving tasks or activities that can de-motivate or discourage the students;
(iii) to enhance the design of the curriculum by incorporating the students' goals and the lecturers' goals which can lead to more effective and efficient learning approaches; and
(iv) to improve the assessment tools by incorporating tasks that require the students to think and learn the ways that they are supposed to.
The students intrinsic motivation can be influenced or enhanced by the lecturers or tutors teaching methodologies. Thus, some information from the students is required in order to assess their perceptions and learning approaches. In addition, students' learning is more effective and efficient when the students have explicit, reasonable, positive goals or objectives, and when their goals or objectives match well with the lecturers' goals or objectives. Thus, the design of the curriculum is very important in the aspect of motivating students' learning. It is also important how the students are being assessed and evaluated. The ways of students study and learn are very much affected by the way they are being assessed and evaluated.
The main objective of this study is as follows:
(i) to determine the factors that can motivate or de-motivate the students in the effective learning of engineering subjects;
(ii) to improve teaching methodologies by incorporating tasks or activities that can enhance the students intrinsic motivation in learning these subjects more effectively and avoiding or improving tasks or activities that can de-motivate or discourage the students;
(iii) to enhance the design of the curriculum by incorporating the students' goals and the lecturers' goals which can lead to more effective and efficient learning approaches; and
(iv) to improve the assessment tools by incorporating tasks that require the students to think and learn the ways that they are supposed to.
Date Issued
1996
Call Number
T65.3 Lie
Date Submitted
1996