Measuring Student Motivation: How the Formulation of a Question Affects a Response?

Student: Iarovaia Polina

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Sociology and Social Informatics (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2020

In the present thesis the methodology of questionnaire formation for survey method of data collection is considered. With the help of the experiment, in which senior classes of one St.-Petersburg gymnasium took part, it was possible to see significant results. In my work I analyzed such a method of questionnaire construction as "balanced" scales, i.e. those using opposite wording of pairs of questions. The work includes a literature review concerning the context of the conducted research (namely, the motivation of schoolchildren in the process of learning) and the analysis of the obtained data by means of statistical tests.

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