| Sumario: | The writers outline the development, for use with secondary students, of the California Measure of Mental Motivation (CM3), which is intended to measure the degree to which an individual is cognitively engaged and mentally motivated toward intellectual activities that involve reasoning. They report that exploratory factor analysis, with oblique rotation, revealed four theoretically meaningful dimensions: Learning Orientation, Creative Problem Solving, Mental Focus, and Cognitive Integrity. They assert that the four factors demonstrated a satisfactory level of stability across study samples and that scales derived from these four factors correlated with known measures of student motivation and academic achievement.
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