An immersive long-term intervention to identify sustainable authentic teaching practices that promote student motivation to learn

Throughout their academic journey, students commonly experience a decline in motivation, with a shift towards competitive rather than mastery-oriented goals, detrimentally impacting learning outcomes and overall wellbeing.

Our aim is to counteract this trend by identifying teaching strategies that foster constructive motivation among students, while examining how interactions between students´ achievement goals and perceived classroom goal structures influence this process.

Over a span of two years, researchers and educators across all subjects and grades at two grade 7-9 institutions will collaborate to devise and implement teaching methods aimed at nurturing motivation.

The study will assess students´ long term motivational development (LTMD) through repeated questionnaires and latent growth modeling over three years, comparing results with two control schools.

Additionally, an experience sampling method will be employed with a subset of students at the experiment schools, gathering data on interactions between their achievement goals and perceived classroom structures during eight one-week observation periods over the intervention period. Researchers will also document teaching practices through observations and audio recordings during these periods.

Utilizing multi-level modeling, we will analyze the interplay between teaching methods, student-classroom goal interactions, and their impact on LTMD.Patterns in teachers´ views on the teaching practices are analysed by AI.