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Article: What do Chinese students say about their academic motivational goals—reasons underlying academic strivings?
Title | What do Chinese students say about their academic motivational goals—reasons underlying academic strivings? |
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Keywords | Academic motivational goals Chinese learners adolescence interviews social-academic goals |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02188791.asp |
Citation | Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020, Epub 2020-09-07, p. 1-15 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Although differences in academic motivation may exist across cultures, research on academic motivational goals has been Western-focused and relied on Western originated questionnaire. There is a dearth of studies adopting bottom-up, emic, and in-depth approaches to explore East Asian students’ academic motivation. This study describes Chinese students’ academic motivational goals in their own words. Participants were 28 11th-grade students (Mage = 16.1 years, age range: 15–17 years, including 15 males) from urban, rural, and suburban regions. They were interviewed in individual sessions and asked open-ended questions, such as “Why do you engage in academic tasks?” Inductive content analyses suggested that these students wanted to do well academically or engage in academic tasks for a wide variety of reasons. Among these, the most salient were: (1) to obtain college admission and elevate social status; (2) performance-oriented reasons; (3) to master the knowledge and develop competence; (4) family-oriented reasons; and, (5) personal interest. Furthermore, their responses suggested many students viewed education as a means to an end. They sought to (1) master knowledge and gain good results on college admission examination for upward social mobility; and, (2) to achieve high performance and outperform others for family-oriented reasons. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/288192 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.697 |
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dc.contributor.author | Wang, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | Rao, N | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-05T12:09:13Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-05T12:09:13Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020, Epub 2020-09-07, p. 1-15 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0218-8791 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/288192 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Although differences in academic motivation may exist across cultures, research on academic motivational goals has been Western-focused and relied on Western originated questionnaire. There is a dearth of studies adopting bottom-up, emic, and in-depth approaches to explore East Asian students’ academic motivation. This study describes Chinese students’ academic motivational goals in their own words. Participants were 28 11th-grade students (Mage = 16.1 years, age range: 15–17 years, including 15 males) from urban, rural, and suburban regions. They were interviewed in individual sessions and asked open-ended questions, such as “Why do you engage in academic tasks?” Inductive content analyses suggested that these students wanted to do well academically or engage in academic tasks for a wide variety of reasons. Among these, the most salient were: (1) to obtain college admission and elevate social status; (2) performance-oriented reasons; (3) to master the knowledge and develop competence; (4) family-oriented reasons; and, (5) personal interest. Furthermore, their responses suggested many students viewed education as a means to an end. They sought to (1) master knowledge and gain good results on college admission examination for upward social mobility; and, (2) to achieve high performance and outperform others for family-oriented reasons. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02188791.asp | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Asia Pacific Journal of Education | - |
dc.rights | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Asia Pacific Journal of Education on 7 Sep 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02188791.2020.1812513 | - |
dc.subject | Academic motivational goals | - |
dc.subject | Chinese learners | - |
dc.subject | adolescence | - |
dc.subject | interviews | - |
dc.subject | social-academic goals | - |
dc.title | What do Chinese students say about their academic motivational goals—reasons underlying academic strivings? | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Rao, N: nrao@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Rao, N=rp00953 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/02188791.2020.1812513 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85090303783 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 315235 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 15 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000566994300001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1742-6855 | - |