Designing and Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Educational Package of Choice Theory on the Motivation and Academic Hope of the Male High School Students: A Case Study Kerman, Iran
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Motivation, Academic hope, Educational package, High school students, IranAbstract
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Background and Aim: Academic motivation and hope is one of the effective factors in the academic success of students, especially in secondary school. This study was conducted with the aim of designing and evaluating an educational package to improve the motivation and academic hope of male students of the second year of high school in Kerman.
Methods: This research was a semi-experimental study with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this study included all male students of the second year of high school in two districts of Kerman city (N=450). A multi-stage random cluster sampling method was considered and 60 participants were randomly divided into two experimental (N=30) and control (N=30) groups. To collect data, Wallerand et al.'s academic motivation scale (1992) and Kharmai and Kameri's educational hope scale (2016) were used. The subjects of the experimental group received the selection theory training package during 8 sessions, while the control group did not receive any intervention. In this study, the repeated measures ANOVA was used and the data were analyzed using SPSS software version 23.
Results: The results of this study showed that the educational package compiled based on the choice theory had an effect on internal motivation and lack of motivation and academic hope in the post-test stage and caused this effect to continue in the follow-up stage as well. Also, the results showed that the educational package based on the choice theory had no effect on external motivation (P<0.05).
Conclusion: The results of this study provided an insight into the effectiveness of the educational package in improving the motivation and academic hope of the male students of the second year of secondary school in Kerman. The implementation of this package will significantly increase students' academic motivation and hope.
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