Effect of Middle School Students’ Motivation to Learn Technology on Their Attitudes toward Engineering

Hyuksoo Kwon

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2016.1279a

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Hyuksoo Kwon ¹ ^*

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¹ Department of Technology and Home-Economics Education, Kongju National University Gongju, Republic of Korea^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of motivation to learn technology, as perceived by South Korean middle school students, on their attitudes toward engineering. Using the instruments of Glynn et al. (2011) and Lee (2008), the study focused on eighth and ninth grade students in four middle schools located in South Korea’s larger cities. The study identified a positive correlation between middle school students’ motivation to learn technology and their attitudes toward engineering. Also, the engineering interest was found to be mostly affected by motivation to learn technology; and the engineering curriculum and engineering consequence, by career motivation. Based on the educational implications of these study findings, this essay discusses the implementation of engineering in the middle school technology curriculum.

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motivation
technology education
K-12 engineering education
Republic of Korea

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, 2016, Volume 12, Issue 9, 2281-2294

https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1279a

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Kwon, H. (2016). Effect of Middle School Students’ Motivation to Learn Technology on Their Attitudes toward Engineering. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 12(9), 2281-2294. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1279a

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Kwon H. Effect of Middle School Students’ Motivation to Learn Technology on Their Attitudes toward Engineering. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2016;12(9):2281-94. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1279a

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Kwon H. Effect of Middle School Students’ Motivation to Learn Technology on Their Attitudes toward Engineering. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2016;12(9), 2281-2294. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1279a

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Kwon, Hyuksoo. "Effect of Middle School Students’ Motivation to Learn Technology on Their Attitudes toward Engineering". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2016 12 no. 9 (2016): 2281-2294. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1279a

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Kwon, H. (2016). Effect of Middle School Students’ Motivation to Learn Technology on Their Attitudes toward Engineering. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 12(9), pp. 2281-2294. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1279a

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Kwon, Hyuksoo "Effect of Middle School Students’ Motivation to Learn Technology on Their Attitudes toward Engineering". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 12, no. 9, 2016, pp. 2281-2294. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1279a