What Motivates Students? A Study on the Effects of Teacher Leadership and Students' Self-Efficacy

Autor/inn/en	Öqvist, Anna; Malmström, Malin
Titel	What Motivates Students? A Study on the Effects of Teacher Leadership and Students' Self-Efficacy
Quelle	In: International Journal of Leadership in Education, 21 (2018) 2, S.155-175 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-3124
DOI	10.1080/13603124.2017.1355480
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; Student Motivation; Teacher Leadership; Self Efficacy; Self Determination; Learning Theories; Teacher Student Relationship; Teacher Influence; Hypothesis Testing; Student Surveys; Likert Scales; Multiple Regression Analysis; Statistical Analysis; Least Squares Statistics; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Schulische Motivation; Lehrerfunktionsstelle; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Selbstbestimmung; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Schülerbefragung; Likert-Skala; Statistische Analyse; Schweden
Abstract	Students' educational motivation is significant for performance and achieving learning, but little is known about what fuels such motivation. Educational motivation is regarded as the drive and inner state that energise educational activities, facilitate learning and channel behaviour towards achieving educational goals. Educational motivation paves the way for students to learn and acquire the knowledge that is essential for successful study outcomes. This article aims to explore what determines students' educational motivation. Building on the self-determination theory, we modelled the influence of teachers' leadership and students' self-efficacy on students' educational motivation. We used survey data from a sample of upper secondary school students in Sweden; we received a total of 993 answers, equal to a response rate of 74%. The results show that students' self-efficacy and teacher leadership are of extreme importance for students' educational motivation, and that highly efficacious students lose most educational motivation when the teacher's leadership is poor. The results thus support the importance of teachers' leadership for encouraging student learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01