A Research on Learning Approaches and Achievement Focused Motivations of Prospective Visual Arts Teachers

Abstract

Investigating the relationship between the learning approaches and achievement-focused motivations of the prospective visual arts teachers is the purpose of this study. The data of the research, in which the survey model was employed, were collected from 115 prospective visual arts teachers. As the data collection tool, the Achievement Focused Motivation Scale (AFMS), and the Learning Strategies Scale (LSS) were applied. The descriptive analysis was used to test the learning approaches and achievement-focused motivation levels of the prospective visual arts teachers, the independent samplings t-test to test the achievement focused motivation difference according to the gender, the One-way Variance Analysis to investigate the difference according to the class level.As the literature was reviewed, there are studies that are similar to our research on learning approaches (Ekinci,

Benlik Saygısı ve Beden İmajı Algısının Başarı Odaklı Motivasyona Etkisinin İncelenmesi

“…(6) Taskesen'in üniversitesinde öğrenim gören görsel sanatlar öğretmen adaylarında yürüttüğü çalışmada ise öğretmen adaylarının başarı odaklı motivasyon düzeylerinin oldukça yüksek olduğu bulunmuştur. (23) Bu durum araştırma grubunun farklılığına, yeteneğin ön planda olduğu bir öğrenim düzeyi içinde olmalarına bağlı olabilir.…”