Browsing by Subject "Academic motivation"

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The psychometric properties of the Academic Motivation Scale-College version of South African first-year university students

Kapp, Adele (North-West University (South Africa), 2020)

South African universities have one of the lowest graduation rates in the world (South Africa, Department of Higher Education and Training, DHET, 2014). However, there are various reasons why students are unsuccessful in ...
Student ranking by means of non-linear mathematical optimization of participation marks

Van der Merwe, A.; Du Toit, J.V.; Kruger, H.A. (ORLab Analytics, 2016)

Ranking students according to their growing participation marks could encourage them to develop self-motivational attitudes toward their academic progress. This paper describes the ranking of students by means of a non-linear ...