Autonomous Motivation in College Education Majors

The Trans-Contextual Model of Autonomous Motivation in Education

The trans-contextual model outlines the processes by which autonomous motivation toward activities in a physical education context predicts autonomous motivation toward physical activity outside of school, and beliefs about, intentions toward, and actual engagement in, out-of-school physical activity. In the present article, we clarify the fundamental propositions of the model and resolve some ...

Electives support autonomy and autonomous motivation in undergraduate medical education.

Electives support autonomy and autonomous motivation in undergraduate medical education Rashmi Kusurkar & Gerda Croiset To cite this article: Rashmi Kusurkar & Gerda Croiset (2014) Electives support autonomy and autonomous motivation in undergraduate medical education, Medical Teacher, 36:10, 915-916, DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2014.940876 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/0142159X....

Autonomy support for autonomous motivation in medical education

BACKGROUND Medical students often study only to fare well in their examinations or pursue a specific specialty, or study only those topics that they perceive to be useful in medical practice. The motivation for study in these cases comes from external or internal pressures or from the desire to obtain rewards. Self-determination theory (SDT) classifies this type of motivation as controlled moti...

Preparing physics majors for secondary-level teaching: the education concentration in the Haverford College physics program

How Do Young People Choose College Majors?

Ce document est publié dans l'intention de rendre accessibles les résultats préliminaires de la recherche effectuée au CIRANO, afin de susciter des échanges et des suggestions. Les idées et les opinions émises sont sous l'unique responsabilité des auteurs, et ne représentent pas nécessairement les positions du CIRANO ou de ses partenaires. This paper presents preliminary research carried out at...