Quantitative research

QUAntITATIVE RESEARCH IN EDUCATION

STUDENTS:

• Emily Andrea SimbañaPilatuña
• Lucía Doménica Garrido Mejía
• Melissa Nayeli Santos Espinoza
• Samantha Carolina Calva Minga
• Mishell Alexandra Fuentes Jerez

Motivation and Academic Performance

Encapsulates the complex relationship between students' drive to learn and their actual achievement in educational settings. It refers to the challenge of understanding, nurturing, and sustaining students' motivation to engage in learning activities and how this motivation impacts their academic outcomes.

description of the educational problem

• Addressing the problem of motivation and academic performance requires a multi-faceted approach that considers individual differences, socio-cultural contexts, and systemic factors influencing student engagement and achievement. Effective interventions may involve implementing motivational strategies in teaching practices, providing targeted support and resources for at-risk students, fostering a positive and inclusive school climate, and promoting collaboration among educators, families, and communities to support students' holistic development and success in school and beyond.

Students will complete an initial assessment of their motivation and academic performance. The experimental group will then participate in activities to increase their motivation, such as one-on-one tutoring, goal setting, and positive feedback. Finally, a second assessment will be administered to measure changes in performance. To collect data, the following will be used:

Standardized questionnaires on motivation

Academic records (grades, attendance, test scores)

Structured classroom observations on motivation-related behaviors

A comparison table Experimental and Quasi-experimental

disadvantages

advantages

EXPERIMENTAL

EXPERIMENTAL

• Control overal variables
• Causality
• Internal and external validity
• Ethical concerns
• Fliexibility

• Time and resources.
• Practical limitations.
• Artificiality.
• Demand characteristics
• Sample representativeness.

A comparison table Experimental and Quasi-experimental

advantages

disadvantages

QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL

QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL

• On the negative side, a quasi-experiment is exposed to selection bias.
• Quasi-experiments require the use of appropriate statistical models so that the statistical estimation is valid.
• The lack of randomness of the study groups means that the tests are too weak, unrepresentative of the population to wich they belong.

• Quasi-experiments are typically less complicated to set up than true experiments.
• Quasi-experiments can also be followed in varius settings and is efficient in longitudinal research.
• Also preferred because the experimenter can choose the type of manipulation they want.

Motivation and academic performance

Students with higher motivation tend to do better academically, while those with low motivation tend to perform poorly.

Students have difficulty maintaining adequate motivation, which is reflected in their performance in this subject.

DELIMITAtion

FOCUS ON:

Population: Students at a public educational institution.

Context: English as a foreign language.

Intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, demotivation.

VARIABLES TO BE ANALYZED

Factors influencing motivation and academic (interest, self-efficacy, teacher support, etc.).

RESEARCH DESIGN

Mixed research, will thus allow to obtain a vision of the problem, and will provide valuable information for decision-making and the design of effective interventions.

• To collect data in qualitative research

• Conduct interviews to delve deeper into their perceptions, experiences, and factors that influence their motivation.
• Analyze data using content analysis techniques.

To collect data in quantitative research

• Surveys and Quizzes
• Quantitative Observation

• Structured Interviews

• Secondary Source Data Analysis

REFERENCES

Porto, J. P., & Gardey, A. (2021, 9 june). Cuasi experimento - Qué es, definición, ventajas y desventajas. Definición.de. https://definicion.de/cuasi-experimento/

Cuasi experimentos. (s. f.). https://ccp.ucr.ac.cr/cursoweb/242cuas.htm

Shaughnessy, J. J., Zechmeister, E. B., & Zechmeister, J. S. (2019). Research Methods in Psychology (11th ed.).

Trochim, W. M. K., & Donnelly, J. P. (2008). The Research Methods Knowledge Base (3rd ed.).