Content analysis of elementary science text books based on the achievment motivation constructs.

Autor/in	Shahmohammadi, Nayereh
Titel	Content analysis of elementary science text books based on the achievment motivation constructs.
Quelle	In: Procedia : social and behavioral sciences, (2013) 84, S. 426-430 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1877-0428
DOI	10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.06.579
Schlagwörter	Grundschule; Leistungsmotivation; Schulbuch; Geschichte (Histor); Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Sachunterricht; Iran
Abstract	The textbook is considered one of the most important references and resources for students' learning in the education system. Because of the important role of the text book content in encouraging, providing learner educational needs, and making the students' learning process easy, the science books content in primary school have been assessed and analyzed with respect to construct of advancement motivation and its indexes. This study tried to answer following question: 1. How much did the science books' content of the grade one to grade three paid attention to the amount of achievement motivation construct and its component? 2. How much did the science books' content of the grade four and five paid attention to the amount of achievement motive construct and its component? Method of research was content analysis. The population of present study includes all 5 elementary science books during 2010-2011 school year. On this ground, all five science books content were analyzed by content analysis methods based on the attention they give to the achievement motive construct and its components. The research tools included a checklist composed of 10 components and 125 secondary components based on the definition of achievement motive construct and its theory.Also the reliability of the tool has been calculated to be 0.93 based on the ratio of agreed - upon indexes to all other ones. The findings of the study showed that 1. Science books to a high extent paid attention to advancement motivation constructs. 2. Among science books, grade 3 and grade 5 text books more dealt with motivation construct than 1, 2, 4 grades science books. 3. Grade one science books least paid attention to motivation construct.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2023/1