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Intrinsic motivation and the process of learning: Beneficial effects of contextualization, personalization, and choice.

Cordova, Diana I., Lepper, Mark R.·1996·Journal of Educational Psychology
DOI 10.1037/0022-0663.88.4.715
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This experiment examined the effects on the learning process of 3 complementary strategies—contextualization, personalization, and provision of choices—for enhancing students' intrinsic motivation. Elementary school children in 1 control and 4 experimental conditions worked with educational computer activities designed to teach arithmetical order-ofoperations rules. In the control condition, this material was presented abstractly. In the experimental conditions, identical material was presented in meaningful and appealing learning contexts, in either generic or individually personalized form. Half of the students in each group were also offered choices concerning instructionally incidental aspects of the learning contexts; the remainder were not. Contextualization, personalization, and choice all produced dramatic increases, not only in students' motivation but also in their depth of engagement in learning, the amount they learned in a fixed time period, and their perceived competence and levels of aspiration. Learning, every parent knows, can be fun. From the dogged dedication of the infant learning to walk and the voraciousness of the toddler first learning the names of objects to the insatiable curiosity of the preschooler wanting to know the why behind everything, astute observers from Plato to Piaget have remarked upon young children's intrinsic love for learning. There are, it appears, no preschool children with motivational deficits. Yet only a few years later, after these same children have entered school, their motivation to learn has somehow become decidedly more problematic. Many of them seem to find the instructional activities in schools to be dull and

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Authors
Cordova, D. I., & Lepper, M. R.
Venue
Journal of Educational Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
1996-12
Volume
88
Issue
4
Pages
715-730
ISSN
  • 0022-0663 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-2176
DOI
10.1037/0022-0663.88.4.715
OpenAlex
W2122025961
Cited by
1,568
References
4
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FWCI
10.92
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Journal of Educational Psychology (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
Keywords
intrinsic motivation, contextualization, personalization, choice, elementary school students, order of operations, mathematics learning, perceived competence, student engagement

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