A Comparative Analysis of Student Motivation Research and Strategies

This report provides an analysis of five research papers focused on student motivation in learning. The first study by Panisoara et al. (2015) explores the impact of academic motivation on students, highlighting the importance of various motivational techniques. Rowan's (2017) research investigates the role of teachers in addressing long-lasting educational challenges through motivation, emphasizing the influence of goal commitment. Yasin's (2015) study examines factors affecting the motivational levels of secondary school students and teachers, noting the importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Vibulphol (2016) investigates motivational strategies for language learners, emphasizing the role of self-determination. Finally, Gbollie and Keamu (2017) focus on motivational strategies that hinder student performance, highlighting the impact of various learning strategies. The report synthesizes these findings, identifying strengths, weaknesses, gaps in the research, and areas of agreement and disagreement, providing a comprehensive overview of student motivation and effective learning strategies.

STUDENT MOTIVATION IN
LEARNING: IMPORTANCE AND
TECHNIQUES

Research 1
Topic
This topic was based on student’s motivation learning. This research was conducted by
Georgeta Panisoara, Nicoleta Duta, Ion-Oviduia Panisoara from Faculty of Psychology and
Educational Science in 2015. Purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of academic
motivation on students. This was qualitative research with purposive sampling method used to
collect the data of school students. Main findings of this research were to find the effect of
general academic motivation on the students.
Strength
Strength of this research was that sample of 90 students were taken which helped them to
understand and complete their research properly.
Weaknesses
This research was insufficient to identify the effect of motivation on poor performance of
the students.
Research Discussions
This research is focusses on reasons of development of academic motivation for students.
There are various techniques that can be used to motivate students academically. According to
Panisoara and Dutaa (2015) motivation has very important influence on students' behaviour and
their attitude. It is one of the key factor that determine performance of the students. But they are
motivated by completely different activities and interests. Motivation can simply be described as
state that directs, energizes and sustain someone's behaviour is called motivation. According to
the analysis done on the students especially between age group 18 to 28 need developments of
various techniques in order to develop academic motivation. There are various factors that
affects motivation of students such as: selection of a task under free choice of students affects the
performance of students in that particular tasks, High level of efforts while working on different
assignments and tasks also affects the level of motivation, working for longer time on same task
also affects motivation both positively and negatively i.e. it can either depress someone of
motivate someone to the same task. At last level of achievement that is affected by the efforts,
choice and persistence is one of the main factor that affects the level of motivation. Based on
these factors' performance of a student was hindered in various was such as academic

performance of a student either improved or degraded, student use to either pay more attention in
class or less attention in class based on the level of motivation due to the above factors.
Gaps to fill in the research
Main gap to be filled in the research was to significantly identify the difference of
average students and the techniques that can be used to motivate the students.
Agreements
I agree that increasing self-confidence of the students works as a motivational factor to
motivate students.
Disagreements
I completely disagree that below average performance students have fewer factors to get
motivated.
Research 2
Topic
This topic was based on motivational matters based on long lasting matters. This research
was conducted by Leonie Rowan from school of education and professional Studies in 2017.
Purpose of this research was to investigate the role of teachers in education to respond long
lasting problems through motivation. This was qualitative research with stratified random
sampling technique used to collect the data from respondent teaching from schools. Main
findings of this research were to identify motivational matters to solve long lasting problems in
education.
Strength
Strength of this research was that in this extremely diverse data set of Australia is taken
to identify needs of diverse learning as a main challenge.
Weaknesses
Weakness of this research was that this research only focused on motivational techniques
of teachers, it didn't show importance of motivation in students in a clear way.
Research Discussions
This research mainly focusses on the impact of content and knowledge shared by teachers
with their students can hinder the motivation of students in many ways. Leonie Rowan, (2017)
tried to explore that how Self-motivational factors or goal commitment work as a motivation in
order to achieve academic achievements of the students. According to him set future goals can

work as a motivation to achieve future goals and develop deep extensive knowledge useful for
their future carriers. These future goals help the students to commit towards their studies
motivate students to achieve their final targets. In this research the researcher investigated the
impact of motivational techniques of teachers on students. The founded that impact of real world
challenges affected the performance of teachers as well as students. They also found that effect
of changing curriculum decreases opportunities for students and continuous monitored
curriculum increases future opportunities for the students.
Gaps to fill in the research
Main gap to be filled in the research was to show the effect of motivation on students to
achieve academic achievements of the students.
Agreements
I agree that use of motivational techniques is important in order to solve long lasting
problems in education.
Disagreements
I disagree that responsibility on students degrade their performance and demotivates
them.
Research 3
Topic
This topic was based on lack of motivation in teachers. This research was conducted by
Hina Yasin from Department of management Science in 2015. Purpose of this research was to
investigate the factors affecting motivational level of secondary school students. This was
qualitative research with stratified proportionate random sampling is used for choosing the
sample size from schools. Main findings of this research were to identify the factors due to
which motivational level is low in teachers and students.
Strength
Strength of this research was that it was sufficient enough to identify all the factors that
affect the motivational level in teachers.
Weaknesses
Weakness of this research was that it failed to identify all the main reasons that affect the
motivational level in students.

Research Discussions
According to Nawaz and Yasin (2015) motivation is important in both students as well as
in teachers as lack of determination and motivation can demotivate teachers also which will
further demotivate students. So in educational field motivation is major key factor of success as
it encourages both teachers and students. Motivation is of two types i.e. intrinsic and extrinsic.
Both of them have different methods that can be used to motivate students and to encourage
them in giving their best efforts a true potential.
Both Nawaz and Yasin (2015) Conducted a survey and with the help of a questionnaire
distributed to students and teachers as well as from the interview conducted Various reasons
were identified which hinders the performance as well as motivation level in students Foe
example presence of other teachers and students. They also found that increasing pressure
because of lack of motivation also increased the turnover rate of teachers within schools which
further affected the students' performance. It was also important for both the teachers and
students to learn and teach in a friendly environment in order to increase the quality of their
performance as well as their learning outcome.
Gaps to fill in the research
Main gap to be filled in the research was to show all the factors that affects the motivational
level in students.
Agreements
I agree that factors like target, tough competition, lack of available resources acts as a
hindrance in motivation.
Disagreements
I completely disagree that presence of other students or teachers affects the motivational
level of students as well as teachers.
Research 4
Topic
This topic was based motivational strategies of language learners. This research was
conducted by Jutarat Vibulphol from Faculty of Education in 2016. Purpose of this research was
to investigate language learner’s motivational ways that will increase the motivational level in
students. This was qualitative research with Stratified random sampling method was employed to
select the participants to allow the distribution of sample over the population. Main findings of

this research were that students have comparatively high level of motivation if they have interest
in the subject they are studying.
Strength
Main strength of this research was that it used self-determination theory using two data
collection methods such as observation and self-report questionnaire.
Weaknesses
Main weakness of this research gave an overview of various motivational strategies for
students i.e. it doesn't give much detailed analysis of these motivational strategies.
Research Discussions
The main aim of this research was to investigate motivational strategies for language
learners. According to Jutarat Vibulphol, (2016) there are various self-motivation strategies
which help students to get motivated and learn. He distributed a questionnaire to students and
teachers and investigated motivational theories that motivate them in learning. The findings of
this research suggest that students have high level of motivation when they teach a subject they
are interested in as compared to the students who teach the subject they are not interested in.
Those students who attended classes they were least interested in showed lack of motivation. So,
this research showed that if students are taught with lifelong learning since starting then it can
work as a main factor to motivate students. According to Jutarat Vibulphol, (2016) results of the
questionnaire distributed within teachers and students these self-learning motivational strategies
motivate students internally and enhance their sustainability to learn in classrooms. Jutarat
Vibulphol, (2016) also says that if motivational theories are deployed in teacher’s education
programs then it can further benefit the teachers as well as students.
Gaps to fill in the research
Main gap to be filled in the research was to focus and research on various motivational
strategies used to motivate students.
Agreements
I strongly agree that self-learning or lifelong learning is one of the main factors that can
motivate a student.
Disagreements
I disagree that based on a questionnaire motivational strategies can be found out.

Research 5
Topic
This topic was based role of motivational strategies or factors hindering students
learning. This research was conducted by Charles Gbollie and Harriett Pearl Keamu from
Foundation of Research education in 2017. Purpose of this research was to learn various
motivational strategies used to improve students learning outcomes. This was a cross sectional
quantitative research using SPSS sampling. Main findings of this research were they type of
motivational strategy like rehearsal strategies used to motivate students.
Strength
Strength of this research was that it clearly showed all motivational beliefs of type of
motivation strategies used that are responsible for decline in students’ academic performance.
Weaknesses
Weakness of this research was that out of thousands of students only 323 students were
chosen for this research due to which accuracy of this research decreases.
Research Discussions
This research focuses on motivational strategies that hinder students' performance. Motivation
has very important influence on students' behaviour and their attitude. It is one of the key factor
that determines performance of the students. But they are motivated by completely different
activities and interests. According to Gbollie and Keamu (2017) nature of motivation and various
strategies in learning plays a vital role in order to improve learning outcomes of a student. They
say that learning strategies and motivational theories hinders the academic performance of the
students. These strategies can either increase readiness and attention for a work which helps
them in achievement of desirable results for that task or can degrade their performance if not
applied properly. Finding of this cross sectional quantitative research showed that there were few
strategies such as rehearsal strategies were most frequently used and benefited individuals as
compared to other strategies. Gbollie and Keamu (2017) included few strategies in the
questionnaire and asked about its effect on students’ academic performance. According to their
research female students showed higher rate of effect of these strategies on their learning as
compared to the male students. This research helped them to understand various factors that
worked as a hindrance in students’ performance as well as increased the pressure on students and
finally worked as a hindrance in their performance.

Gaps to fill in the research
Main gap to be filled in the research was that more students' data should have been
selected in order to bring accuracy in their final analysis result.
Agreements
I agree that motivational beliefs and learning strategies do work as a hindrance in
student’s motivation.
Disagreements
I disagree that motivational strategies and beliefs work differently based on genders.

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