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TITLE OF PUBLICATION
THE DETERMINANTS AFFECTING STUDENT MOTIVATION
NAME OF AUTHOR(S)
Marian Hosťovecký
NAME OF PUBLISHER
Slovak University of Agriculture Nitra, Department of Pedagogy and Psychology.
YEAR OF PUBLICATION
2010
LANGUAGE OF PUBLICATION
Slovak
PUBLICATION TYPOLOGY
Report
TARGET GROUP OF PUBLICATION
Teachers
SIZE OF THE PUBLICATION
3 – 10 pages
DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS
Motivation is one of the most important factor that significantly contributes to the quality of education. Many surveys and researches describe motivation of the students and there are
significant differences not only in the field, but also in achievements in knowledge. Naturally, motivation of students is affected by several determinants: teacher (his appearance, skills), internal or external motivation of the students, facilities. The main goal of this paper is to integrate the results of two surveys carried out: finding incentives and disincentives
determinants of secondary school students and teachers, identify burnout in a sample of randomly selected secondary schools
REVIEWER’S COMMENTS ON THE PUBLICATION
One of the few posts on student motivation, which deals with basic principles of student motivation, focuses on the determinants that affect motivation as a character and school focus and teacher personality. The contribution is based on two questionnaire surveys. The first one is focused on the students determining the main motivation factors, the second on the teachers determining whether the teachers suffer from the burn out syndrome. The survey involved 115 students and found that most motivation factor is modern teaching equipment 65%, and for 15% of students own desire to study, to broaden their knowledge. The greatest disincentives factors were monotone teaching and 70% speech as well as teacher’s appearance.
For teachers, the survey involved 30 teachers and showed that 70% of the surveyed teachers think that they have lost motivation for the teaching profession and up to 40% of teachers with two year work experience feel burnt out.
WHERE TO FIND IT
http://kppnitra.tym.sk/2010/clanky/Hostovecky.pdf
NAME OF THE REVIEWING ORGANISATION
TRANSFER Slovensko, s.r.o.

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