Relationship Between Cognition of Learning Significance and Learning Motivation Toward Home Economics Education (1) : Outline of Learning Motivation and Construction of Scales

Abstract

This study was designed to reexamine in the field of home economics education, the result found by Miyakoshi in the study of learning motivation (1986), which emphasized the importance of metacognition of learning significance. This paper was conducted to show the position of this study on learning motivation and to construct the scales: cognition scale of learning significance, learning attitude scale and learning objective scale. Based upon the results of item analysis to examine reliability and validity, cognition scale was constructed consisting of 15 items with 3 subscales: needs for sociality, efficiency and consistency; attitude scale of 19 items with 3 subscales: cognition, feelings and behavior; and objective scale of 5 items.