Browsing by Subject "henkilökohtaisten projektien menetelmä"

Aims. The aim of the research was to find out are there any connections between parents socioconomical status and secondary school students highest degree goals, their personal study goals, and how they experience them. In addition, one aim was to find out are there any connections between parents socioeconomical status and how students motivate themselves for their goals. Furthermore, I consider do these connections differ between genders. Methodology. The research was conducted as a part of a larger Mind the Gap research project funded by the Academy of Finland in the spring of 2013. 1342 first year secondary school students from 17 different secondary schools in Helsinki took part in the research. Students named their highest degree goal and also named one personal study goal. The answers were analysed with the help of a contingency table. On questions of personal project analysis inventory, Little's (1983) PPA-indicator was used, and on motivation Deci and Ryan's (1985) SDT-indicator. The results were analysed by using a one-way analysis of variance. Results and conclusions. The study shows, in accordance to earlier studies made in a Finnish context, that there is a connection between parents socialeconomical status and students highest degree goals, but the connection is not strong. Furthermore, the study shows that 50,8% of first year secondary school students don't know what is their highest degree goal. No significant connection of personal study goals on secondary school students was found. But there is a significant connection between how students experienced reaching their goals and how they motivated themselves to reach them. Students whose mothers are managerial employees experienced stronger progress and persistence. When both parents have a higher sociaeconomical status, there is a connection between the students intrinsic motivation to reach their personal study goals. The results show that a higher sosioeconimical status leads students to find a natural intrinsic motivation for secondary school studies.