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Jones, Brett D. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
The purposes of this study were to investigate the extent to which students' course perceptions of the components of the MUSIC Model of Motivation (Jones, 2009, 2018) were related to their engagement in college courses and their instructor and course ratings. Participants included 285 college students who completed questionnaires once or twice…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Correlation, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement
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Jones, Brett D.; Skaggs, Gary – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
This study provides validity evidence for the MUSIC Model of Academic Motivation Inventory (MUSIC Inventory; Jones, 2012), which measures college students' beliefs related to the five components of the MUSIC Model of Motivation (MUSIC model; Jones, 2009). The MUSIC model is a conceptual framework for five categories of teaching strategies (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Test Validity, Undergraduate Students
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Jones, Brett D.; Sigmon, Miranda L. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2016
Introduction: The purpose of our study was to assess whether the Elementary School version of the MUSIC® Model of Academic Motivation Inventory was valid for use with elementary students in classrooms with regular classroom teachers and student teachers enrolled in a university teacher preparation program. Method: The participants included 535…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Elementary School Students, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals)
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Tendhar, Chosang; Singh, Kusum; Jones, Brett D. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which (1) a domain identification model could be used to predict students' engineering major and career intentions and (2) the MUSIC Model of Motivation components could be used to predict domain identification. The data for this study were collected from first-year engineering students. We…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Correlation, Engineering Education
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Jones, Brett D.; Li, Ming; Cruz, Juan M. – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which Chinese and Spanish translations of the College Student version of the MUSIC® Model of Academic Motivation Inventory (MUSIC Inventory; Jones, 2012) demonstrate acceptable psychometric properties. We surveyed 300 students at a university in China and 201 students at a university in…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Cross Cultural Studies, Chinese, Spanish
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Jones, Brett D.; Sahbaz, Sumeyra; Schram, Asta B.; Chittum, Jessica R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
We investigated students' perceptions related to psychological constructs in their science classes and the influence of these perceptions on their science identification and science career goals. Participants included 575 middle school students from two countries (334 students in the U.S. and 241 students in Iceland). Students completed a…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Jones, Brett D.; Ruff, Chloe; Snyder, Jennifer Dee; Petrich, Britta; Koonce, Chelsea – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2012
We examined how students' motivation differed when they participated in three different types of mind mapping activities: one activity that was completed individually outside of class time, one that was completed individually in class with the instructor available for help, and one that was completed in class with other students and the instructor…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Student Motivation, Mixed Methods Research, Undergraduate Students