Motivational beliefs and perceptions of instructional quality: predicting satisfaction with online training.

Many would agree that learning on the Web - a highly autonomous learning environment - may be difficult for individuals who lack motivation and self-regulated learning skills. Using a social cognitive view of academic motivation and self-regulation, the objective of the present study was to investig...

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Published in:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 260 - 271
Main Author: Artino A
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jun2008
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        affil: Cognition and Instruction Program, Department of Educational Psychology, Neag School of Education, University of Connecticut, 249 Glenbrook Road, Unit 2064, Storrs, CT 06269, USA. Email: tony_artino@yahoo.com
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          Education, Non-Traditional Psychosocial Factors
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      ab: Many would agree that learning on the Web - a highly autonomous learning environment - may be difficult for individuals who lack motivation and self-regulated learning skills. Using a social cognitive view of academic motivation and self-regulation, the objective of the present study was to investigate the relations between students' motivational beliefs, their perceptions of the learning environment and their satisfaction with a self-paced, online course. Service academy undergraduates ( n = 646) completed a questionnaire following online training. Pearson correlations indicate that task value, self-efficacy and perceived instructional quality were significantly positively related to each other and to students' overall satisfaction with the self-paced, online course. Additionally, results from a three-step hierarchical regression reveal that task value, self-efficacy and instructional quality were significant positive predictors of students' satisfaction; the final regression model accounted for approximately 54% of the variance in the outcome measure. These findings support and extend prior research in traditional classrooms and online education in university settings, indicating that military students' motivational beliefs about a learning task and their perceptions of instructional quality are related, in important ways, to their overall satisfaction with online instruction. Educational implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.
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