Profiles of students’ behavioral engagement and their associations to academic motivation in online learning
摘要
In this study, the researchers surveyed 276 students from an undergraduate online course and analyzed 10,927 of traced behavior sessions in a learning management system. The study examined the relationship between students’ academic motivation (e.g., utility value, attainment value, intrinsic value, and self-efficacy) and their behavioral engagement in online learning. The researchers focused on both the quantity of behavioral engagement represented by the frequency of page views and the quality of behavioral engagement represented by the sequential patterns of page views. Markov Chain Model analyses revealed six unique sequential-action profiles of behavioral engagement, including Assignment-focused Profile, Dual-focused Profile on Assignment and Reading, Triangular-balanced Profile on Assignment, Reading, and Resource, Integrated Profile, Reading-focused Profile, and Assignment-focused with Planning Profile. Along with five single-action clusters (i.e., Assignment-only Profile, Reading-only Profile, Overview-only Profile, Resource-only Profile, and Overview-only Profile), the study included a total of eleven session clusters. The findings revealed nuanced relationships between motivation and various clusters of behavioral engagement in online learning.