Gorodetskaya, I. M., & Romani, P. M., & Sanger, P. A. (2016, June), Cross-Cultural Learning Motivations for Engineering Students   Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.26606

\bibitem{asee_peer_26606}
  Gorodetskaya, I. M., \& Romani, P. M., \& Sanger, P. A. (2016, June), \emph{Cross-Cultural Learning Motivations for Engineering Students }
  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  10.18260/p.26606

Inna Mikhailovna Gorodetskaya, Pablo Moreno Romani, and Phillip Albert Sanger.  "Cross-Cultural Learning Motivations for Engineering Students ".  2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2016.  https://strategy.asee.org/26606 Internet.  02 Aug, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_26606}
  Inna Mikhailovna Gorodetskaya, Pablo Moreno Romani, and Phillip Albert Sanger.
  "Cross-Cultural Learning Motivations for Engineering Students ".
  \emph{2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2016.
  https://strategy.asee.org/26606 Internet.  02 Aug, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Motivation is one of the core components of educational learning and it greatly influences the efficiency of the training process. More than that, many researchers (K.D.Ushinsky, E.P.Ilyin, Black, Deci, Duckworth, Sternberg, etc) consider motivation to be no less than, or even more important, for personal development and professional success than cognitive capabilities. Engineering training is a complex poly-motivated process. Motivation is a crosscutting element of personality, i.e. it reflects the level of identity, group characteristics and specifics of the learning situation. Motivation acts as a link between a person and their social and historic context. Thus learning motivation is influenced not only by peculiarities of engineering pedagogy, but also by the students’ mentality, culture and value system. This influence is especially important for international students as different cultures develop various learning strategies and values that form the basis of motivation to acquire an engineering degree. 
Learning motivation includes direct motives (intrinsic factors, deriving from the learning activity itself) and indirect motives (external motivation that influences the educational process in a roundabout way).  Although many intrinsic and external motivational factors are universal and cross culture boundaries, significant peculiarities occur in their hierarchy and have inter-correlation.  The paper focuses on learning motivation of engineering students in the cross-cultural context—focusing not on why young people study, but to what extent their motivation is conditioned by their culture and social environment.  The approach has been to conduct surveys using well established survey instruments measuring motivation in three cultures: mid-west American, South American (Peru) and central Russian (Tartarstan).  The trend is interesting: the U.S. American student focuses on getting a job and career, the south American student is motivated by improving the living conditions of their village and the Russian student is motivated in part of finding an appropriate living partner particularly for females.  Correlation analysis revealed additional subconscious and hidden groups of motives and backbone motivational blocks for each group. 

AU  - Inna Mikhailovna Gorodetskaya
AU  - Pablo Moreno Romani
AU  - Phillip Albert Sanger
CY  - New Orleans, Louisiana
DA  - 2016/06/26
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Cross-Cultural Learning Motivations for Engineering Students 
UR  - https://strategy.asee.org/26606
DO  - 10.18260/p.26606
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