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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Motivation

Overview

  • Influence: Motivation
  • Domain: Student
  • Sub-Domain: Motivational approach/orientation
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
  • Influence Definition: There are many internal and external factors that motivate and stimulates students to be continually engaged, interested, and committed to school learning or to make an effort to attain a goal.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 21
  • Number of studies: 1,625
  • Number of students: 26,134,274
  • Number of effects: 5,729
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.40
  • Robustness index: 5

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
American Educational Research Journal Uguroglu & Walberg USA Motivation and Achievement: A Quantitative Synthesis 1979 Motivation 40 36,946 232 0.34
Zeitschrift Fur Entwicklungspsychologie Und Padagogische Psychologie     Schiefele, Krapp, & Schreyer Germany Metaanalyse des Zusammenhangs von Interesse und schulischer Leistung. (Meta-analysis of the relation between interest and academic achievement) 1993 Interest and achievement 21 0 121 0.65
Journal of Educational Psychology Whitley & Frieze USA Children's causal attributions for success and failure in achievement settings: A meta-analysis. 1985 Success vs. failure attributions 25 0 25 0.56
Educational Psychology Review Crede & Niehorster USA Adjustment to College as Measured by the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire: A Quantitative Review of its Structure and Relationships with Correlates and Consequences 2012 Adjustment to college on achievement 156 44,668 156 0.28
Learning and Individual Differences Crede & Phillips USA A meta-analytic review of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire 2011 Motivation strategies 67 19,900 2,158 0.24
Psychological Bulletin Cerasoli, Nicklin, & Ford USA Intrinsic motivation and extrinsic incentives jointly predict performance: A 40-year meta-analysis 2014 Intrinsic motivation 125 196,778 125 0.47
Book Ozen Turkey The Effect of Motivation on Student Achievement 2017 Motivation 205 772,903 205 0.56
Journal of Business Psychology Bauer, Orvis, Ely, & Surface USA Re-Examination of Motivation in Learning Contexts: Meta-Analytically Investigating the Role Type of Motivation Plays in the Prediction of Key Training Outcomes 2016 Motivation 136 25,012 136 0.10
Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Chen, Chen & Zhu USA Are K–12 Learners Motivated in Physical Education? A Meta-Analysis 2012 Motivation on physical education outcomes 29 0 283 0.43
Psychological Bulletin von Stumm & Ackerman UK Investment and Intellect: A Review and Meta-Analysis 2013 Investment in learning 112 22,621 77 0.24
Journal of Educational Psychology Schwinger, Wirthwein, Lemmer & Steinmayr Germany Academic Self-Handicapping and Achievement: A Meta-Analysis 2014 (Lack of) Self-handicapping on achievement 36 25,550 49 0.47
Psychological Bulletin Jansen, Meyer, Wigfield, & Möller Germany Which student and instructional variables are most strongly related to academic motivation in K-12 education? A systematic review of meta-analyses 2022 Motivation on achievement 125 24,813,120 487 0.42
Japanese Psychological Research Okada Japan Effects of Perceived Autonomy Support on Academic Achievement and Motivation Among Higher Education Students: A Meta-Analysis. 2021 Intrinsic autonomy motivation 16 6,116 16 0.37
Psikodimensia Waluyohadi Indonesia Meta-analysis study of achievement motivation and academic achievement.  2019 Academic motivation 14 39,059 14 0.70
Education Sciences Quílez-Robres, Moyano, & Cortés-Pascual Spain Motivational, Emotional, and Social Factors Explain Academic Achievement in Children Aged 6–12 Years: A Meta-Analysis. 2021 Motivation 37 15,734 37 0.68
Konselor Adiputra, & Mujiyati Indonesia Motivasi dan prestasi belajar siswa di Indonesia: Kajian meta-analisis.  2017 Motivation 20 2,591 20 0.46
Review of Education Goksu & Bolat Turkey Does the ARCS motivational model affect students' achievement and motivation? A meta-analysis. 2021 Motivation 38 0 110 0.74
Educational Research Review Fong, Krou, Johnston-Ashton, Hoff, Lin, & Gonzales USA LASSI's great adventure: A meta-analysis of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory and academic outcomes 2021 Motivation 186 71,855 219 0.43
Psychological Bulletin Rusz, Le Pelley, Kompier, Mait, & Bijleveld Netherlands Reward-driven distraction: A meta-analysis 2020 Low or neutral vs. high rewards 91 2,362 91 0.35
Review of Educational Research Toste, Didion, Peng, Filderman, & McClelland USA A meta-analytic review of the relations between motivation and reading achievement for K–12 students. 2020 Motivation and reading 132 0 1,154 0.45
Psikodimensia Emillio & Waluyohadi Indonesia Meta-analysis study of achievement motivation and academic achievement. 2019 Achievement motivation 14 39,059 14 0.70
TOTAL/AVERAGE 1,625 26,134,274 5,729 0.46
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