University Study: Analyzing Student Motivation and Class Attainment

This report investigates student motivation for attending classes within an educational management context. It begins with an abstract summarizing the research's purpose, which is to identify the factors that motivate students to attend classes. A research question is developed and addressed through a literature review, conceptual framework, and hypothesis. The study employs a mixed research design, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative elements, and utilizes primary and secondary data collection methods. Statistical data analysis techniques are planned. Ethical considerations, including informed consent and GDPR compliance, are addressed. The report acknowledges limitations such as time, cost, and resource constraints. The core of the study revolves around understanding how various motivational factors impact student class attainment, drawing upon the cognitive evaluation theory to frame the investigation. The report further explores research design, data collection methods, sampling, data analysis, significance, limitations, and ethical considerations, providing a comprehensive overview of the research process and its implications. The report concludes with references and an appendix, offering a complete overview of the research process.

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Abstract
The main purpose of this research is to identify the motivation for students to attain classes.
This report illustrated that the main area of research is education. It has also developed a
research question that was responded through a literature review. Along with this, in this
research report, the conceptual framework is used for understanding the concept of research
issues. Moreover, the hypothesis was developed to create a relationship between two
variables such as motivation and attaining classes. The literature review was used to
demonstrate the views of different authors in the context of research issues.
In this research study, a mixed research design would be used as it contains the features
related to quantitative and qualitative research design. In addition, both primary and
secondary data collection method would be used to collect the depth information about
research issues. This research report described that statistical data analysis technique would
be used to analyze the information. Along with this, ethical consideration would be used to
ethically complete the research by considering informed consent, anonymity, and GDPR
(general data protection regulation). In this research, some limitations were discussed such as
time, cost and resources required for the attainment of goals and objectives of investigations.

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Table of Contents
Abstract......................................................................................................................................2
Introduction – area, topic, statement of purpose........................................................................4
Conceptual framework, theory, hypothesis................................................................................4
Literature review........................................................................................................................6
Methods......................................................................................................................................8
Research Design.....................................................................................................................8
Data Collection Method.........................................................................................................9
Sampling Method.................................................................................................................10
Data Analysis Method..........................................................................................................11
Significance..............................................................................................................................12
Limitations...............................................................................................................................12
Ethical issues............................................................................................................................13
References................................................................................................................................15
Appendix: Google Form...........................................................................................................18

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Introduction – area, topic, statement of purpose
Research area
The research area for this is related to educational management.
Topic
The topic of this research study is to identify the motivation for students to attain classes.
Statement of purpose
In the current scenario, motivation is highly considered for students in terms of attaining their
classes. The key difficult concept for becoming a teacher is learning regarding the ways of
motivating the students. It is one of the significant aspects. Students who are not encouraged
would not learn significantly. They will also not retain data and will not participate as well as,
some of them could even become disruptive (Zheng, et. al., 2015).
Along with this, a scholar would be unmotivated for several reasons such as they can feel that
they have a lack of interest in the subject. Hence, there is a need to find the teaching method
for unengaging or be distracted through external factors. It can also focus on a student who
appears unmotivated and actually have complex learning as well as, is a requirement for
special focus in this research (Abeysekera, and Dawson, 2015).
Research question –
The main research question for this research is “how the student can be motivated for
attaining their class?” and this research question would be resolved through the application of
literature review and survey through a questionnaire.
Conceptual framework, theory, hypothesis
The conceptual framework is developed for understanding the issues of research i.e.
motivation for students to attain classes. This framework is developed as given below:

Independent factor
Motivational factors for student
Encourage Students
Get Them Involved
Offer Incentives
Get Creative
Draw Connections to Real Life
Plan Ahead
Dependent factor
Attainment of Class
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Theory
Cognitive Evaluation Theory
As per this theory, when focusing on a task, people assess it with respect to how well it
accomplishes their need to experience competent as well as, in control. People would be
intrinsically encouraged through a task that an individual believed to fall in their existing
competency level as well as, delay by those which they feel they would perform
unsuccessfully. This concern is related to the self-perception related to one’s level of
competency as compared with the objective reality (Rothes, Lemos, and Gonçalves, 2017).
Implications for the classroom:
Student needs to make sure that before engaging scholars in demanding tasks that they can
observe as being beyond their level for competency. They prepare the task cognitively,
adequately as well as, emotionally. For illustration, in the learning of language, earlier
performing the complex listening comprehension task, a scholar should expose different
items for unfamiliar vocabulary and other language item involved in to-be-heard recording in
order to complete the task (Goulimaris, 2015). In addition, modelling strategies can help in
attaining the task as well as, providing the chance to experience some success in a

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comparable task. Together with, it would provide the chance to experience some attainment
in parallel task via increasing the sense of self-efficiency. It would also provide the student
with a greater expectancy of success as well as, a feeling of empowerment that would feed
into a sense of control with competency (Utvær, and Haugan, 2016).
Hypothesis
H0: There is no significant relationship between student motivation and attainment of class
H1: There is a significant association between student motivation and attainment of class
Literature review
According to Balan Clark and Restall (2015), the encouraging student is a method of
motivating the student for attaining the class. Student emphasizes on teacher for positive
reinforcement as well as approval. It is also more prospects to be enthusiastic regarding
learning when they feel their performance is valued with recognized. The teacher should
encourage free thinking with open communication to a student in order to make them feel
significant. In addition to this, the student should be enthusiastic and praise the student often.
They should be also recognized for their contribution. When a classroom is a friendly place in
which, students feel respected with heard then, they would be keener for learning. Along with
this, a good job could go in a long way.
In contrast to this, Huang Hsu and Chen (2015) evaluated that teacher can encourage and
teach students about their responsibility by getting them entailed into the classroom. The
teacher should make participating in fun by providing a job to each student. They should also
provide the responsibility to the student to tide up and decorate the classroom. It should also
allocate the scholars for erasing the blackboard or distribute to materials. When the teacher
would be going over to read in class then ask students for taking turns reading sections out of
deafening. The teacher should provide the work to a student in a group as well as, assigns

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each task or role. Moreover, providing the student a sense for ownership permits them to
attain as well as, motivates active participation in the classroom.
As per the opinion of Lukkarinen Koivukangas and Seppälä (2016), developing the
expectation as well as, creating reasonable demands motivates scholars for participating.
However, in some cases, scholars have the requirement of extra push in a feasible direction.
The teacher should also provide small incentives to the student to make fun learning as well
as, encourages scholar for pushing themselves. In addition, incentives could be range from
small to large and providing special opportunity to an excellent scholar such as a pizza party
at the classroom in case average test score increases. Along with this, rewards provide a sense
of attainment to scholars as well as, motivate them for working towards a goal in mind.
On the other hand, Lazarides et al. (2016) evaluated that teacher should eliminate the
monotony by transforming in around the structure related to the classroom. In this way, they
can teach by games as well as a discussion rather than lectures, motivate students for debating
as well as, enrich the subject matter with the visual aids such as colorful charts, videos, as
well as, diagrams. The teacher can demonstrate a movie that significantly demonstrates a
theme or topic. In addition, the physical classroom can never be boring if the teacher would
use models, posters, seasonal themes as well as, student projects in terms of decorating the
classroom as well as, developing affectionate with an interesting atmosphere.
As per the opinion of Moschetti and Hudley (2015), the teacher should draw connections to
real life as it demonstrates that a scholar is not engaged. When a scholar does not believe that
their learning is significant then they will not want to learn. Hence, it is significant for
depicting how the subject is related to students. At the time of teaching algebra, the teacher
should take some time for investigating the ways for practical utilization such as in the
engineering, share their findings with the students. The teacher should surprise the student by
telling them that they can apply it in their career. It can also demonstrate student that a

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subject is implemented every day through real people as it provides new significance. They
could never be encouraged regarding Algebra however when they demonstrate how it applies
to them that they could be encouraged to learn carefully.
On the other side, He Holton Farkas and Warschauer (2016) evaluated that there are different
methods for teaching a course such as discussion, lecture, as well as, cooperative learning.
When planning about the course, then the teacher would need to assess which teaching
technique would be primarily practiced as well as, how scholar participation would be
combined. In addition, each class would need to be same, however, understanding which
technique a teacher prefers would support to assess the expectation for scholar participation.
Methods
Research Design
Research design is a critical part of research methodology as it is imperative in completing
the targeted research objectives in an effective way. Certain techniques are entailed in the
research design that would be practiced by an investigator in order to accomplish the research
work. These techniques are named as the qualitative, quantitative and mixed research design.
Qualitative research design relies on the perception, views, and beliefs of research
participants. It is also based on the subjective nature of research and enhances the knowledge
of research scholar in depth (Martínez-Sierra, and del Socorro García-González, 2016).
On the other hand, quantitative research design considers the proceeding level according to
the pooled facts and figures. In this way, it is analysed that this designing tool resolves the
complex data and act as a scientific model. Under the quantitative research design, questions
start with how many and how often. Further, a mixed research design consists of features of
qualitative and quantitative research design (Harackiewicz, et. al., 2016).
The researcher would select a mixed research design for this research study to accomplish
their investigation within the allocated time duration. Because this method entails the unique

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features of both type of research design. In order to this, a quantitative research design is
imperative in the analysis of the research participant’s responses. In addition, the qualitative
research design is an advantageous tool for evaluating the association between motivational
factor for students and attainment of classes (Gunuc, and Kuzu, 2015).
This method would also assist the research scholar to eliminate the limitations and barriers of
research work that will arise during or after the research study. Because, this tool of research
design is based on the building theoretical concept and also enhances the practical
understanding with respect to motivation for students to attain classes (Brown, Danvers, and
Doran, 2016).
Data Collection Method
Data accumulation tool is referred to as the process of gathering data by various resources in
a systematic way for attaining the research objectives and goal. The appropriate method of
data gathering will assist the research scholar to comprehend knowledge related to the
research issue. It is also advantageous for getting a precise conclusion with respect to
research concern (Fernandez-Rio, et. al., 2017). Two types of data collection are practiced to
accumulate the data that are named as a primary and secondary method of data pooling. In
such a way, primary data is termed as the fresh and new data that will first time collected by
an investigator. Various sources would be exercised by the researcher to pool the primary
data such as interview method, case study, action research, group discussion and survey
through a questionnaire (Rowbotham, and Owen, 2015).
For performing the investigation on the motivation for students to attain classes, primary as
well as secondary both methods of data pooling would be practiced by the investigator. In
order to this, the primary method of data pooling is profitable for conversing with the
respondents directly and to obtain their opinion related to research concern (Hlinka, 2017).
Under this technique, research scholar would practice online monkey survey method to

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accumulate the trustworthy and authentic data. This tool will assist the investigator to collect
the beliefs of selected research participants with respect to motivation for students to attain
classes (Orsini, Evans, and Jerez, 2015).
On the other hand, a secondary method of data pooling would be profitable for developing
detailed and non- numerical knowledge in the context of the research dilemma. Since, this
method of data accumulation will enable the research scholar to pool relevant data from
different resources such as websites, articles, journals, and books. Thus, this method would
be significant to the authenticity and appropriateness of the research outcome (Farhangmehr,
Gonçalves, and Sarmento, 2016).
Sampling Method
Sampling is referred to as the process of choosing the appropriate research candidates for the
research work to share their responses to the questionnaire. Two types of sampling strategy
are used in the dissertation that is named as probability and non-probability sampling method.
Probability sampling tool with simple random sampling strategy would be practiced by the
research scholar to select the research participants for conducting online monkey survey
(Gilavand, 2016).
The simple random sampling strategy is the simple and purest form of probability sampling
tool that is also known as the random sampling technique. This is an imperative tool to
choose an appropriate sample size for various research purposes and under this sampling
strategy, each member of sample to be chosen as a sample component (Kori, et. al., 2016).
The main reason for selecting this sampling strategy is that this tool would eliminate the
biases from the research work and delegate sample would be attained as a result. More than
100 people would be needed for this research to implement the simple random sampling tool.
In this way, 200 customers would be chosen from a different region of the nation by the

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research scholar. This is profitable for attaining the perception and beliefs of selected
research candidates related to research dilemma (Cokley, 2015).
Data Analysis Method
After pooling the data, it is needed for the investigator to evaluate the collected data for
obtaining the trustworthy and valid research outcome related to research issues. In order to
this, certain techniques of data analysis would be exercised by the research scholar that is
named as content or thematic analysis, conversational and disclosure analysis and statistical
analysis. It is advantageous for assessing the accumulated data in a comprehensible manner
(Panagiotis, et. al., 2016).
Statistical data analysis tool would be practiced by the investigator for performing this
research work. It would make the researcher more capable to illustrate the descriptive
statistics of data like cross-tabulation, correlation, and regression (Kori, et. al., 2016). Further,
it would also support the investigator to identify the reason behind shared answers of research
candidates. In order to this, research scholar has exercised the SPSS and MS-excel software
program to illustrate the evaluated data in the tabular and graphical way (Cokley, 2015).
Software
Research scholar would choose IBM SPSS 20.0 version instead of E-views and AMOS for
numerical assessment because SPSS assist in importing the data in an easier way and delivers
complete access of statistical analysis (Gilavand, 2016).
Outputs
This tool is effective in accumulating the relevant data from a specified population related to
the motivation for students to attain classes. Research scholar would develop a different
questionnaire to conduct this research work in an appropriate way (Orsini, Evans, and Jerez,
2015).
Descriptive Analysis

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Descriptive analysis is referred to as a set of the statistical coefficient that summarizes a
targeted set of data. It would represent the figures and facts associated with all samples and
population. Sample related to the research work would be managed by the investigator and
interpret it by using descriptive statistics (Hlinka, 2017).
Significance
This research is important to understand the motivational factors for students to attain the
class. This would be contributed to developing the knowledge for academicians and
practitioners to comprehend the motivational factor. It would also aid the teacher to
encourage the students to get achievement in class (Cokley, 2015).
Limitations
Various research limitations could generate difficulties in accomplishing the research work,
which is discussed below:
Time constraint
The researcher would face time issue like the minimum time period is allocated for
performing the cross-sectional study because the research scholar will attend their all classes
as well as will also accomplish around 2 to 3 assignment within the research work (Brown,
Danvers, and Doran, 2016).
Fund
A research scholar belongs with low-income group family so that finance issue would be a
major issue that will create complexities in travelling of a different region of the country due
to an inadequate amount of money. During conducting the online monkey survey, it would
also be a major issue for collecting the opinion of selected research candidates regarding
research matter (Gunuc, and Kuzu, 2015).