Momentary motivation (MOMO)

Project description

Previous studies have investigated motivation primarily on a general or person-specific level and have hardly focused on intraindividual variability. The research object of MOMO are dynamic motivational processes in learning situations. The project aims to understand these dynamics and, building on them, to find out to what extent different task types and situational differences in teacher behavior that learners are exposed to in a specific situation predict their motivation in that situation. In this way, the specific characteristics of learning situations that are conducive to arousing motivation and maintaining it over time can be identified.

This question is investigated by means of smartphone-based electronic diaries (experience sampling method), with which learners provide information about their current motivation when they are currently in a learning situation.

Project related publication

Moeller, J., Dietrich, J., Viljaranta, J., & Kracke, B. (2020). Disentangling objective characteristics of learning situations from subjective perceptions thereof, using an experience sampling method designExternal link. Frontline Learning Research, 8, 63-84.

Dietrich, J., Moeller, J., Viljaranta, J., & Kracke, B. (2019). In-the-Moment Profiles of Expectancies, Task Values, and CostsExternal link. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1662.

Reitzle, M. & Dietrich, J. (2019). From between-person statistics to within-person dynamics.External link Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung, 14, 323-342.

Dietrich, J., Viljaranta, J., Moeller, J., & Kracke, B. (2017). Situational expectancies and task values: Associations with students' effort. External linkLearning and Instruction, 47, 53-64.