Inventory of School Motivation

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Instrument Overview

The ISM measures school motivation and was designed to enable cross-cultural comparisons in school motivation. Subscore(s): There are eight motivation scales: Task, Effort, Competition, Social power, Affiliation, Social concern, Praise, and Token. There are four sense-of-self scales: Sense of purpose, Self-reliance, Negative self-concept, and Positive self-concept. There are five general motivation scales: Valuing motivation, Global motivation, Mastery general, Performance general, and Social general.

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American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.

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Content

Grades
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Intrapersonal competencies
Languages
English
Respondent
Student

Administration Information

Length
114 items
Administration
Paper

Access and Use

Setting
Classroom,
Schoolwide