SELF-REGULATORY STRATEGIES AND EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION AS PREDICTORS OF EFFECTIVE LEARNING OF STATISTICS AMONG UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Fidelis Chinedu Onwunyili and Ifenyinwa Obi
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Fidelis Chinedu Onwunyili: Federal College of Education, Okene, Kogi State, Nigeria
Ifenyinwa Obi: Federal College of Education, Okene, Kogi State, Nigeria

Social Sciences and Education Research Review, 2020, vol. 7, issue 2, 107-125

Abstract: This study employs descriptive correlational design to determine whether self-regulatory strategies and extrinsic motivation can predict effective learning of statistics among undergraduate students. The study’s population sample consists of the second year undergraduate students in five departments of FCE, Okene, Kogi State, Nigeria: an affiliate of University of Ibadan, offering Statistics in Education. Simple random sampling was used in selecting the sample size of 200 across the five departments.One research instrument consisted ofstudents’ self-regulatory strategies (SSRS) and students’ extrinsic motivation (SEM); and one constructed academic performance proforma were used for the study. The reliability was obtained through crombach alpha coefficients of 0.85 and 0.78 respectively. Data collected was analyzed using regression analysis, pearsonproduct moment correlation and correlational matrix. The study’s results show that self-regulatory strategies and extrinsic motivation have the ability to improve students’ academic performance, and revealed more to academic performance of students taking statistics.

Keywords: Self-regulation; self-regulatory strategies; extrinsic motivation; statistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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