Assessment for the New Curriculum: A Guide for Professional Accounting Programs-Appendix 8 Locus of Learning Motivation Scale

Assessment for the New Curriculum:
A Guide for Professional Accounting Programs

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Appendix 8
Locus of Learning Motivation Scalea

 

Select the letter which ranks the extent of your agreement with each statement, according to the following scale:
  1. AGREE STRONGLY
  2. AGREE
  3. AGREE SLIGHTLY
  4. DISAGREE SLIGHTLY
  5. DISAGREE
  6. DISAGREE STRONGLY

A number of questions may seem to be controversial, others you may feel neutral about; however, please attempt to choose the rating that best describes how you believe or feel.

  1. There is a certain excitement in new learning of any kind, and it truly enriches life.
  2. Learning that does not contribute to one's likelihood for occupational success is a waste of time.*
  3. If you go to college for vocational purposes only, you miss a lot of other classroom learning experiences that are just as important if not more important.
  4. General education and liberal arts have little appeal to me; I want to concentrate on the preparation necessary for vocational success.*
  5. The search for meaning in life is given strong support by a mind that is continually looking for new learning, insights, and understanding.
  6. If learning did not help me to get a better job and make a better living, I'd soon lose my motivation.*
  7. A commitment to lifelong learning is a commitment to a rich and satisfying life.
  8. The love of learning is what keeps me going.
  9. The great values that university professors claim for liberal education are simply psychological justification for a way of life they have chosen and must defend.*
  10. Learning is necessary in this world, but it is not something I find particularly enjoyable in itself.*
  11. The evidence that people with more education earn more money is what really makes the case for higher education.*
  12. The human being's desire to learn and understand is what makes the individual life worth living.
  13. I am a person who is interested in a broad education rather than concentrating in one area.

a©1992 Irvin Tom Nelson. Version 2.0. Items with an asterisk (*) are reverse scored. May be used for academic research with proper citation. Any use for commercial gain, without written consent, is prohibited.

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