Incidencia de la motivación hacia el aprendizaje y las expectativas educativas de los estudiantes uruguayos de 3° de Educación Media

Abstract

Just by the end of the last century, the Social Sciences have begun to take an interest in socioemotional skills; especially, in motivation for learning by reporting the incidence that this has on educational performance (Santos and Primi, 2014, Farrington et al., 2012).In this study, our objective is to know the incidence of learning motivation on the educational expectations of high school students. To do so, we start from a quantitative methodology by analyzing the Aristas Media 2018 survey (Instituto Nacional de Evaluación Educativa [INEEd], 2018] to a representative sample of students in 3rd year of high school that evaluates performance in Mathematics and Reading in Spanish. The main findings are that only intrinsic motivation has an impact on short-term educational expectations, while intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to Mathematics have an impact on long-term expectations, taking into account variation effect of other factors.