Latent profile analysis of students' science motivation and cognitive dimensions relationships

Year 2025, Volume: 14 Issue: 2, 172 - 192, 30.04.2025

Çiğdem Akın Arıkan , Tuba Acar Erdol , Sait Çüm

https://doi.org/10.19128/turje.1487696

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify students’ motivational beliefs in science and revealed the connections between the profiles and three cognitive dimensions of science achievement through the examination of the socio-economic status (SES) and gender covariates of the profile memberships. Latent profile analysis using science motivational beliefs was conducted, and resulted in a four-profile model. The emerging profiles were named “low motivation”, “moderate motivation”, “high motivation”, and “high motivation with very high confident”. The results showed that the boys were less likely to have “high motivation” and “high motivation with very high confidence” profiles than the girls. The students with high SES were more likely to belong to the high motivation groups. The differences between the mean scores of the students in different motivation profiles were statistically significant in all other pairwise comparisons, except for the comparisons between the low and moderate motivation profiles. Our findings suggest that students’ motivation toward science should take an integrative approach to improve students' cognitive dimensions of science achievement by considering students' gender and SES.

Keywords

Cognitive domains, Latent profile analysis, Science’s achievement, Science’s motivational beliefs, TIMSS

Ethical Statement

I hereby declare that the data for the study mentioned above has been downloaded from the following webpage: https://www.iea.nl/studies/iea/timss/2019, and that this study falls under the category of research that does not require ethical committee approval. Cigdem Akin Arikan - Corresponding Author

Öğrencilerin fen motivasyonu ve bilişsel boyutları arasındaki ilişkilerin örtük profil analiziyle incelenmesi

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı, öğrencilerin fen alanındaki motivasyonel inançlarını belirlemek ve profil üyeliklerinin sosyo-ekonomik duzey (SES) ve cinsiyet ortak değişkenlerinin incelenmesiyle ortaya konan profiller ile fen başarısının üç bilişsel alanı arasındaki iliskiyi ortaya çıkarmaktır. Bu çalışmada, fen motivasyonel inançları kullanılarak örtük profil analizi yapılmış ve dört profilli bir model ortaya çıkmıştır. Ortaya çıkan profiller “düşük motivasyon”, “orta motivasyon”, “yüksek motivasyon” ve “çok yüksek özgüvenli yüksek motivasyon” olarak adlandırılmıştır. Sonuçlar, erkek öğrencilerin kız öğrencilere kıyasla “yüksek motivasyon” ve “yüksek motivasyon ve çok yüksek özgüven” profillerine daha az sahip olduğunu göstermiştir. Yüksek SES'e sahip öğrencilerin yüksek motivasyon gruplarına ait olma olasılığının daha yüksek olduğu elde edilmiştir. Farklı motivasyon profillerinde yer alan öğrencilerin ortalama puanları arasındaki farklar, düşük ve orta motivasyon profilleri arasındaki karşılaştırmalar hariç, diğer tüm ikili karşılaştırmalarda istatistiksel olarak anlamlı çıkmıştır. Bulgularımız, öğrencilerin fene yönelik motivasyonlarının, öğrencilerin cinsiyet ve SES'lerini dikkate alarak fen başarısının bilişsel boyutlarını geliştirmek için bütüncül bir yaklaşım benimsenmesi gerektiğini göstermektedir.

Keywords

Bilişsel alanlar, Fen başarısı, Fen motivasyonel inançları, Örtük profil analizi, TIMSS

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