Academic Performance in Human Anatomy and Physiology Classes: A 2-yr Study of Academic Motivation and Grade Expectation
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1-2016
Publication Title
Advances in Physiology Education
DOI
10.1152/advan.00091.2015
ISSN
1522-1229
Abstract
This project used a nonexperimental design with a convenience sample and studied the relationship between academic motivation, grade expectation, and academic performance in 1,210 students enrolled in undergraduate human anatomy and physiology (HAP) classes over a 2-yr period. A 42-item survey that included 28 items of the adapted academic motivation scale for HAP based on self-determination theory was administered in class during the first 3 wk of each semester. Students with higher grade point averages, who studied for longer hours and reported to be more motivated to succeed, did better academically in these classes. There was a significant relationship between students' scores on the adapted academic motivation scale and performance. Students were more extrinsically motivated to succeed in HAP courses than intrinsically motivated to succeed, and the analyses revealed that the most significant predictor of final grade was within the extrinsic scale (introjected and external types). Students' motivations remained stable throughout the course sequence. The data showed a significant relationship between HAP students' expected grade and their final grade in class. Finally, 65.5% of students overestimated their final grade, with 29% of students overestimating by two to four letter grades.
Recommended Citation
Sturges, Diana, Trent Maurer, Deborah Allen, Delena Bell Gatch, Padmini Shankar.
2016.
"Academic Performance in Human Anatomy and Physiology Classes: A 2-yr Study of Academic Motivation and Grade Expectation."
Advances in Physiology Education, 40 (1): 26-31: American Physiological Society.
doi: 10.1152/advan.00091.2015 source: 10.1152/advan.00091.2015
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/health-kinesiology-facpubs/130
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