It’s been quite interesting to see the Blended Learning Networked Learning Community take to using the intrinsic motivation inventory so readily. I was kind of just resigning myself to the idea that most school research will be confined to simple survey questions for expediency. But I am glad my colleagues in this community recognise the value of using a robust instrument that has been widely accepted in pysch. research. It need not be this instrument, just something more robust than the usual and I’ll be a happy camper =).
As with much of social science research, this relies on self-reporting of human participants, which has its issues. But this inventory has questions built-in to minimize validity concerns. So while imperfect, this is still much better than the usual surveys we use. One disadvantage however is that it’s a rather lengthy survey, which may reduce participation of students who are kind of suffering from survey fatigue ( we survey them for most things these days).
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