Drago, Ludovico (2023) An Investigation of Motivation Role for a Peer Pairing Program. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
In the present qualitative study, we set out to investigate the role of motivation and expectations in the context of a peer pairing programme offered by the Department of Psychology at the University of Groningen. Due to the qualitative nature of this study the main goal is to understand how motivation and expectation influence the experience of incoming students who joined the Buddy Project. Uncovering this will be instrumental to design efficacious improvements for future editions of the program. To achieve our aim, we conducted semi structured interviews and used a mixture of thematic analysis and open coding. Through these two techniques we were able to first highlight areas of interest thanks to relevant literature, and then freely explore amongst the themes for informative patterns. To exemplify, in the present study we relied on self-determination theory (SDT) of motivation to inform our analysis of students' motivation, and after coding for SDT we then started looking for commonalities between students’ accounts. Three were the overarching themes: expectation, nature of students' motivation, and efforts. From these themes various patterns emerged: students’ evaluations being dependent on them getting what they wanted out of the programme, a lack of controlled motivation, or the prevalence of social and academic motive for both joining the programme and for pursuing an international education. After presenting the patterns we closed off by discussing improvements built on these (e.g., adding to the matching procedure what students want out of the programme)
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Otten, S. and Breeuwsma, G. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2023 12:26 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2023 12:26 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2271 |
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