References

The following readings provide background information on measures and concepts related to the lab report.  You may choose to go beyond this list in the material that your read and cite in the report, however it should be possible to attain maximum marks using only the following references.  Note that not all of the references are in perfect APA style (e.g., make sure you use correct APA referencing for electronic references).

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Motivation & Satisfaction

Donohue, T. L., Wong, E. H. (1997). Achievement motivation and college satisfaction in traditional and nontraditional students. Education, 118, 237-243.

Hatcher, L., Kryter, K., Prus, J. S., & Fitzgerald, V. (1992). Predicting college student satisfaction, commitment, and attrition from investment model constructs. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 22, 1273-1296.

Motivation

Amabile, T. M., Hill, K. G., Hennessey, B. A. & Tighe, E. M. (1994). The work preference inventory: Assessing intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 950-967.

Farmer, H. S., & Chung, B. Y. (1995). Variables related to career commitment, mastery motivation, and level of career aspiration among college students. Journal of Career Development, 21, 265-278.

Satisfaction

Aitken, N. D. (1982).  College student performance, satisfaction and retention: Specification and estimation of a structural model.  Journal of Higher Education, 53, 32-50. [UCAN LB2300 S17]

Betz, E. L., Klingensmith, & Menne, J. W. (1970). The measurement and analysis of college student satisfaction. Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 3(2), 110-118.

Betz, E. L., Menne, J. W., Starr, A. M., Klingensmith, J. E. (1971). A dimensional analysis of college student satisfaction. Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 4(2), 99-106.

DeVore, J. R. (1981). The College Student Satisfaction Questionnaire: A test-retest reliability study. Journal of College Student Personnel, 22, 299-301.

Okun, M. A., Kardash, C. A., Stock, W. A., Sandler, I. N., & Baumann, D. J. (1986). Measuring perceptions of the quality of academic life among college students. Journal of College Student Personnel, September, 447-451.

Orpen, C. (1990). The measurement of student university satisfaction: A consumer behavior perspective. Journal of Human Behavior and Learning, 7(1), 34-37.

Pennington, D. C., Zvonkovic, A. M., & Wilson, S. L. (1989). Changes in college satisfaction across an academic term. Journal of College Student Development, 30, 528-535.

Rawsthorne, L. J., Elliot, A. J. (1999). Achievement goals and intrinsic motivation: A meta-analytic review, Personality & Social Psychology Review, 3, 326-344.

Starr, A. M., Betz, E. L., & Menne, J. W. (1972). Differences in college student satisfaction: Academic dropouts, non-academic dropouts, and non-dropouts.  Journal of Counseling Psychology, 19, 318-322. [UCAN BF1 S6]

Witt, P. H., & Handal, P. J. (1984). Person-environment fit: Is satisfaction predicted by congruency, environment, or personality? Journal of College Student Personnel, 25, 503-508.

Internet

Motivation & Satisfaction

Archer, J., Scevak, J., & Monfries, M. (1995).  Motivation to learn in university students: Links with Vygotsky's assisted discovery. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (Bath, England, United Kingdom, September 14-17). ERIC Document ED394396.

James, R. (2001). Students’ changing expectations of higher education and the consequences of mismatches with reality.  OECD Programme in Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) ‘Management responses to changing student expectations’, Queensland, 24 September.

James, R., & Beckett, D. (2002). The changing expectations of university students and their implications for learning. Singapore, 13 July.

Motivation

Breen, R. (2000). Different disciplines require different motivations for success. Oxford Brooks University.

Fairchild, A. J., Horst, S. J., Finney, S. J., & Barron, K. E. (2005). Evaluating new and existing validity evidence for the Academic Motivation Scale.  Contemporary Educational Psychology, 30, 331 -358.

Huitt, W. (2001). Motivation to learn: An overview. Educational Psychology Interactive. Valdosta, GA: Valdosta State University.

Lumsden, L. (1994). Student motivation to learn. Eugene, OR: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management. [ERIC Digest 92 - ED370200]

Hwang, Y. S ., Echols, C., & Vrongistonos, K. (2002). Multidimensional academic motivation of high achieving African American students.  College Student Journal, December.

Qureshi, E., Morton, L. L., Antosz, E. (2002). An interesting profile - University students who take distance education courses show weaker motivation than on-campus students. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 5(4).

Scepansky, J. A., Bjornsen, C. A. (2003). Educational orientation, NEO PI-R personality traits, and plans for graduate school. College Student Journal, Dec.

Vallerand, R. J., Pelletier, L. G., Blais, M. R, Brière, N. M., Senécal, C., & Vallières, E. F. (1993). On the assessment of intrinsic, extrinsic and amotivation in education: Evidence on the concurrent and construct validity of the academic motivation scale. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 53, 159-172.

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