%0 Journal Article
%T Motivation of engineering students in higher education
%A Nick Savage
%A Roy Birch
%A Eleni Noussi
%J Engineering Education
%D 2011
%I 
%X This paper examines motivational factors affecting Higher Education (HE) students in the Faculty of Technology at the University of Portsmouth. A reliable identification of motivational factors would usefully inform pedagogical interventions. Students who are more intrinsically motivated may benefit from less prescriptive assignments which offer more freedom to choose from ¡®formative¡¯ assessment topics in which they have a greater personal interest. For those who are more extrinsically motivated, where the final, ¡®summative¡¯ grade is thought of as the most important, pedagogical styles may less influence students¡¯ motivation. In the current study, the investigatory approaches employed to assess motivation discover different results. While questionnaire responses indicated that students operate both intrinsically and extrinsically, semi-structured interviews found little evidence of the former, with most students indicating that they operate extrinsically.
%K motivation
%K motivational influence
%K curriculum model
%U http://www.engsc.ac.uk/journal/index.php/ee/article/view/175/273