The rapid adoption of generative AI in higher education raises critical questions about its impact on student motivation and basic psychological needs. This study introduces and validates the AI-Motiv
On average across OECD countries, students who are highly motivated to learn mathematics because they believe it will help them later on score better in mathematics – by the equivalent of half a year
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People differ in the extent to which they express a need for sense-making (NSM), and these individual differences are important to understand in light of meaning-making processes. To quantify this imp
Abstract: Introduction: Several educational methodologies have been used as instructional tools, with the objective of increasing student motivation and promoting meaningful learning. In turn, instrum
The aim of this paper is to present a new theoretical framework for the classification of human motivation in order to providean empirical explanation to human variability that may be applicable in th
