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Gorges, Julia, Maehler, Debora B., Koch, Tobias and Offerhaus, Judith (2016). Who likes to learn new things: measuring adult motivation to learn with PIAAC data from 21 countries. Large-Scale Assess. Educ., 4 (1). NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 2196-0739

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Abstract

Background: Despite the importance of lifelong learning as a key to individual and societal prosperity, we know little about adult motivation to engage in learning across the lifespan. Building on educational psychological approaches, this article presents a measure of Motivation-to-Learn using four items from the background questionnaire of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). Methods: We used multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses for ordered categorical data to investigate the scale's dimensionality and measurement invariance across countries. Regression analyses were used to investigate the scale's criterion validity. Results: Results show that the proposed four-item scale fits the data considerably better than the original six-item scale labeled Readiness-to-Learn. Further analyses support the scale's configural, metric (weak) and partial scalar (strong) measurement invariance across 21 countries. As expected, Motivation-to-Learn has significant relations to the working population's engagement in learning in terms of participation in non-formal education over the last 12 months. These relations remain relevant after taking literacy as an indicator of level of education into account. Conclusion: The Motivation-to-Learn scale presented here may be used to indicate adult motivation in cross-country comparisons. The potential of using the scale in future PIAAC analyses and research on adult learning is discussed.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Gorges, Julia UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Maehler, Debora B. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Koch, Tobias UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Offerhaus, Judith UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-254936
DOI:	10.1186/s40536-016-0024-4
Journal or Publication Title:	Large-Scale Assess. Educ.
Volume:	4
Number:	1
Date:	2016
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	2196-0739
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language EXPECTANCY-VALUE THEORY; OF-FIT INDEXES; MEASUREMENT INVARIANCE; ACHIEVEMENT GOALS; EDUCATION; PARTICIPATION; COVARIANCE; PREDICTORS; STRATEGIES; CLASSROOM Multiple languages Education & Educational Research Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/25493