Secondary Vocational School Students' Learning Motivation Research Based On The Need Theory

Secondary vocational education is an important part of secondary education inChina. With the secondary vocational school scale unceasing expanding , more andmore students study there. However,students' weariness in learning is long-standing,which bothers the school leadership and teachers. The people reached a consensusthat the vocational school students' learning motivation is low. The thesis tries toachieve the following purposes by investigation and study: determining the intensityof vocational school students' learning motivation; summarizing distributioncharacteristics of learning motivation contents and proposing respective motivationstrategies in view of the different learning motivation contents.This study adopts self-compiled "Secondery Vocational School Students'Learning and Life Questionnaire" and "Secondery Vocational School Students'Learning Motivation Questionnaire", which is adapted from Huang Xiting's "LearningMotivation Questionnaire" .In the first sectioin,two secondery vocational schoolstudents in Hangzhou had been chosen to determine the reliability and validity of the"Secondery Vocational School Students' Learning Motivation Questionnaire".In thesecond section,students from secondery vocational schools in three provinces and onecity have been chosen to finish the two formal tests. After that,the questionnaires wereanalyzed from gender, grade,and whether singleton and more aspects.Combinating ofwhat the vocational school students' learning and life questionnaire responsed to,andusing pedagogy, psychology as well as other disciplines of knowledge to systemlyresearch the students' learning motivation and based on different learning motivationcontents of the secondary vocational school students ,excitation strategyies weregiven accordingly.Through investigation and analysis, the students learning motivation conclusionsare as follows: 1.Overall,the rank of students' learning motivation contents from highto low is knowledge,pursuit of material comforts,social orientation,small grouporientation,personal achievements,fear of failure.2."Knowlege"motivation hassignificant differents in gender, grade, singleton, parental education level andgraduation.3.There are marked differents among parents' culture and graduationdifferents in social orientation"motivation.4."Pursuit of material motivation" has significant differences in graduation.5."Individual achievement motivation" in gender,whether the singleton, parental education level has significant difference.6."Smallgroup orientation has significant differences in grades and whether single.7.There aremarked grade and graducation differents in "fear of failure"8.There shows nosignificant different in residence and parental occupation among the six kinds oflearning motivation contentsBased on the above findings, it is probably for teachers to promote students'learning through certain excitation strategies.We can meet as many needs of thestudents as possible in view of the different learning motivation contents. Frommacroscopical view,schools and teachers should update the concept of students,which means secondary vocational school students' learning motivation is in themiddle and upper level, students are potential and we should focus on the needs ofthem. In addition,we can create conditions for students to express their autonomythrough the daily management, in self-study class, rich extracurricular activities. Fromthe microcosmic view, specifical targeted measures should be carried out based onstudents' "proximal development zone", which is created by different" advantageneed" to satisfy students' "knowledge"motivation; improve the vocational guidance tosatisfy the "pursuit of material" needs; increase the psychological activities to satisfy"the social orientation "motivation; form a cooperative classroom, to satisfy "smallgroups oriention" motivation; the implementation of multi dimension teaching tosatisfy the needs of "the individual achievement"; using flexible management tosatisfy the "fear of failure" motivation.