Motivational Resilience during COVID-19 across At-Risk Undergraduates

Media reports suggest the switch to online courses due to COVID-19 has “demotivated” undergraduates. Our semester-long study of motivation for biology was in progress when COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. We analyze changes in student (N = 182) motivation from before and after. Across variables, su...

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Autores principales: Cromley, Jennifer, Kunze, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society of Microbiology 2021
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Teaching in a Time of Crisis
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8046648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33884080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2271
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description Media reports suggest the switch to online courses due to COVID-19 has “demotivated” undergraduates. Our semester-long study of motivation for biology was in progress when COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. We analyze changes in student (N = 182) motivation from before and after. Across variables, subgroups of students changed in adaptive and maladaptive ways; some remained stable. In cross-tabulations, one significant difference was found by sex, and a number of adaptive and maladaptive differences by race and socioeconomic status (SES). Despite obvious burdens on low-SES groups, undergraduate motivation was affected positively and negatively in this sample; only some variables were related to intention to remain in STEM.
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spelling pubmed-80466482021-04-20 Motivational Resilience during COVID-19 across At-Risk Undergraduates Cromley, Jennifer Kunze, Andrea J Microbiol Biol Educ Teaching in a Time of Crisis Media reports suggest the switch to online courses due to COVID-19 has “demotivated” undergraduates. Our semester-long study of motivation for biology was in progress when COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. We analyze changes in student (N = 182) motivation from before and after. Across variables, subgroups of students changed in adaptive and maladaptive ways; some remained stable. In cross-tabulations, one significant difference was found by sex, and a number of adaptive and maladaptive differences by race and socioeconomic status (SES). Despite obvious burdens on low-SES groups, undergraduate motivation was affected positively and negatively in this sample; only some variables were related to intention to remain in STEM. American Society of Microbiology 2021-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8046648/ /pubmed/33884080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2271 Text en ©2021 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ), which grants the public the nonexclusive right to copy, distribute, or display the published work.
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