Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
Created along the Motivation and Engagement Wheel, the Motivation and Engagement Scale consists of eleven motivation and engagement subscales congruent with the eleven first-order factors in the Wheel (i.e., self-efficacy, valuing, mastery orientation, planning, task management, persistence, anxiety, failure avoidance, uncertain control, self-handicapping, and disengagement). The eleven subscales can be separated into four major groups representing the four higher-order motivation and engagement factors (i.e., adaptive cognition, adaptive behaviour, impeding cognition, and maladaptive behaviour). Each of the eleven MES subscales comprises four items—hence, the MES is a 44-item instrument. To respond to the MES, a 7-point Likert-type scale, ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree), is provided—with a 1(strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree) scale for use with elementary/primary school students. MES has been adapted for use in 3 different educational stages (primary/elementary school MES-Junior School, high school (MES), university/college MES-University/College) and 3 additional performance domains (Music MES-Music, Work MES-Work, Sport MES-Sport). An 11 item short form is also available.
Content
Grades
Post secondary
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
10-15 minutes, 44 items
Qualifications
N/A
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Price
Option 1- $96.45
-Includes MES pdf, user manual, scoring and profile templates, Excel data entry template, testing guidelines
Option 2- $333.87
-Option 1 + complete Excel data file (once all respondents take MES)
Option 3- $519.35
-Option 1&2 + inclusion of norms (Motivation Quotient-similar to IQ score, Motivation Grades A, B, C, or D) for each student on all 11 motivation factors in Excel file, scoring of raw student data
Option 4- $667.74
-Options 1-3 + set of individual motivation and engagement student profiles and student tip sheets (tip sheet includes advice sheets for all 11 parts of M&E Wheel)
Option 5-$1334.27
-Includes Options 1-4 + school report (school report includes results on 11 factors as a school, broken down by grade and gender, all compared against norms, and difference of genders and grades from norms is also reported)"
Contact
Corresponding Author:
Andrew J Martin
Education & Social Work Faculty, Univ. of Sydney
andrew.martin@sydney.edu.au
andrew.martin@unsw.edu.au
Open Access
No
Use in Research
Edgar, S. (2015). Identifying the influence of gender on motivation and engagement levels in student physiotherapists. Medical Teacher, 37(4), 348-353. https://doi.org/10.3109/0142159X.2014.948829
Elphinstone, B., & Tinker, S. (2017). Use of the Motivation and Engagement Scale–University/College as a means of identifying student typologies. Journal of College Student Development, 58, 457-462. https://doi.org/10.1353/csd.2017.0034
Martin, A. J. (2008). Motivation and engagement in diverse performance settings: Testing their generality across school, university/college, work, sport, music, and daily life. Journal of Research in Personality, 42(6), 1607-1612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2008.05.003
Wurf, G., & Croft-Piggin, L. (2015). Predicting the academic achievement of first-year, pre-service teachers: the role of engagement, motivation, ATAR, and emotional intelligence. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 43(1), 75-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359866X.2014.932328
Yin, H., & Wang, W. (2016). Undergraduate students’ motivation and engagement in China: an exploratory study. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 41(4), 601-621. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2015.1037240
Psychometrics
Scoring
Manual scoring
Referencing
Norm-referenced
Psychometric References
Liem, G.A.D., & Martin, A.J., (2012). The Motivation and Engagement Scale: Theoretical framework, psychometric properties, and applied yields. Australian Psychologist, 47, 3-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-9544.2011.00049.x
Martin, A.J., (2007). Examining a multidimensional model of student motivation and engagement using a construct validation approach. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 77, 413-440, http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/000709906X118036
Martin, A.J., (2009). Motivation and engagement across the academic life span: A developmental construct validity study of elementary school, high school, and university/college students. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 69, 794-824. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013164409332214
Item Type
Likert
