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Three-question taxonomy of motivation constructs: beliefs, task value, and reasons for engaging

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The article organizes motivation constructs using Graham and Weiner's three basic questions — "Can I do it?", "Do I want to do it?" and "Why am I doing this task?" — mapping them onto competence and control beliefs, feelings-related and importance-related task value, and intrinsic versus extrinsic reasons for studying, plus attitudes toward school subjects including a future-interest subcategory. Figure 1 provides "a visual overview of the motivation categories used in our meta-analysis". The taxonomy structures which motivation measures were coded and how moderator analyses were run per construct.

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  • Three-question taxonomy of motivation constructs: beliefs, task value, and reasons for engaging: The article organizes motivation constructs using Graham and Weiner's three basic questions — "Can I do it?", "Do I want to do it?" and "Why am I doing this task?" — mapping them onto competence and control beliefs, feelings-related and importance-related task value, and intrinsic versus extrinsic reasons for studying, plus attitudes toward school subjects including a future-interest subcategory. Figure 1 provides "a visual overview of the motivation categories used in our meta-analysis". The taxonomy structures which motivation measures were coded and how moderator analyses were run per construct. (Wijnia et al. (2024))

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  • Wijnia, L., Noordzij, G., Arends, L. R. A., Rikers, R. M. J. P., & Loyens, S. M. M. (2024). The Effects of Problem-Based, Project-Based, and Case-Based Learning on Students' Motivation: a Meta-Analysis. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09864-3
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title Three-question taxonomy of motivation constructs: beliefs, task value, and reasons for engaging
description The article organizes motivation constructs using Graham and Weiner's three basic questions — "Can I do it?", "Do I want to do it?" and "Why am I doing this task?" — mapping them onto competence and control beliefs, feelings-related and importance-related task value, and intrinsic versus extrinsic r
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