About the project
The project aimed to investigate the parallel development of motivation and competence in mathematics over time, and how these related to each other. The project focused on grades 5 through 10, the transitional period from elementary to lower secondary school. Several motivational constructs was included to investigate their individual development, to relate the development of different motivational constructs to each other, and to the development of competence.
Background
The project ran from November 2017 to October 2021. Longitudinal data on motivation got collected through questionnaires administered to 5 cohorts of pupils, who was followed over a period of 1,5 years. Data on competence got collected simultaneously as the motivation data, in relation to closely linked PhD-project (listed to the right). The data on competence was collected through Norwegian national assessments.
Financing
The project was financed directly by CEMO.
Cooperation
We collaborated with The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training and The Norwegian Centre for Mathematics Education (external links) for data collection.