Background A personal learning project (PLP) is an accredited form of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Canada, and is a self-initiated learning activity that is stimulated by a question, issue or dilemma in one's professional practice. Many complex cases or issues have no answers that are readily available. Many physicians rely day to day on other physician colleagues that they may ...

Reading is critical for students of English as a foreign language. Apart from the four abilities that needed desire to grow, reading one most skills in language acquisition. Therefore, this study aims investigate motivation and EFL learners’ vocabulary development against interest learning moderated by teacher competence. The research participants were university (ages 18) many 53 Riau Province...

The present experiment tested the hypothesis that self-motivation through proximal goal setting serves as an effective mechanism for cultivating competencies, self-percepts of efficacy, and intrinsic interest. Children who exhibited gross deficits and disinterest in mathematical tasks pursued a program of self-directed learning under conditions involving either proximal subgoals, distal goals, ...

253 Ding is with Shanghai University of Sport, College of International Studies, Shanghai, China. Sun is with the Department of Physical Education & Exercise Science, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Chen is with the Department of Kinesiology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC. Impact of Expectancy-Value and Situational Interest Motivation Specificity on Physical...

This dissertation focuses on how student motivation emerges and changes in the day-today classroom context. Drawing on self-determination theory, it proposes that specific features of the classroom instruction—and of what teachers say and do—may either support or frustrate students’ need for autonomy. Autonomy-supportive instruction is hypothesized to enhance interest and competence perception ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether surgical simulation performance and previous video gaming experience would correlate with higher motivation to further train a specific simulator task and whether visual-spatial ability would rank higher in importance to surgical performance than the above. It was also examined whether or not motivation would correlate with a preference to choose a surgical spec...

To assess the motivation level of player interest is difficult; many instruments are potentially biased, unreliable and invalid test. Whereas, in serious game is important to know the motivation level. If the motivation level can be measured well, the mastery learning can be achieved. Mastery learning is the core of the learning process in serious game. To classify the motivation level of playe...

The survey conducted in Qingdao Agricultural University reveals the relationship between motivation and achievement as follows: instrumental motivation influences both high achievers and low achiever; while high achievers have greater integrative motivation than lower ones; Interest plays an extremely important role in study and high achievers have a strong sense of achievement.