Motivation on engineering students: A case study using theories and instruments for its measurement and development

• Main Authors: Daniel López Fernández (Author), Pedro P. Alarcón Cavero (Author), Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez (Author), Mª Luisa Casado Fuente (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Motivation is one of the key issues for the academic performance of university students, especially in engineering programs where their degree of difficulty leads to a low sense of self-efficacy and high rates of absenteeism and dropout in students. Since some time ago psychology has widely addresse...