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Kotera, Yasuhiro; Conway, Elaine; Green, Pauline – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2023
Academic motivation is important to students' mental health and performance. One established measure is the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS), comprising 28 items. AMS assesses intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and amotivation, which are further categorised into seven subscales. One weakness of AMS is its length. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Factor Analysis, Learning Motivation
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Zhang, Bo; Li, Yi Ming; Li, Jian; Li, Ye; Zhang, Houcan – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
Self-determination theory (SDT) has contributed greatly to our understanding of human motivation. Based on SDT, the Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) was developed to assess students' motivation to learn. AMS has been successfully applied to the educational context in Western cultures. However, no psychometrically validated version is available in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Likert Scales, Construct Validity