A motivational climate analysis of teacher behaviors and student behavioral responses

Graduation Date

2015

Document Type

Project

Program

Other

Program

Project (M.S.)--Humboldt State University, Kinesiology, 2015

Committee Chair Name

Rock Braithwaite

Committee Chair Affiliation

HSU Faculty or Staff

Keywords

Perception in physical environment, Humboldt State University -- Projects -- Kinesiology, TARGET, Motivational climate, Needs satisfaction

Abstract

PURPOSE: To compare the differences between teaching behaviors and overall class perception in the physical education environment. A second purpose will be to compare differences in student perceptions of the motivational climate, needs satisfaction, and student behaviors in the middle school aged student population. METHODS: A total of four teachers (1 male and 3 female) with teaching experience (m = 17.8, SD = 6.78) ranging from 1 to 23, and 131 students in middle and high school. Data collection began just after the second semester where before and after each observation period, students completed pre and post questionnaires on perceptions of the motivational climate, needs satisfaction, and learned helplessness. Descriptive statistics and reliability coefficients will be calculated for motivational climate, needs satisfaction, and TARGET behaviors for teachers, classes, and individual students. Objectivity will be established after each observer's score will be compared to three reference points (individual students) on separate occasions over the course of a two-week period. MANOVA will determine the effects the motivational climate had on students' TARGET behaviors, perceived motivational climate, and needs satisfaction. MANOVA will also help determine any interactions among dependent variables and among independent variables.

https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/concern/theses/rb68xf16d

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