2018 Volume 41 Issue 4 Pages 363-374
The purpose of this research is to make it clear what factors affect to increase students’ learning engagement level in higher education. We focused on Parrish’s Learning Experience (LX), which results in a change in value, motivation, or behavior related to study. We qualitatively and quantitatively surveyed forty seven voluntary Japanese college students to find what factors influence students to obtain LX. In conclusion, compared to Parrish’s LX, we found two extra situational factors by qualitative analysis: (1) the situations of overall college course, and (2) the situations of friendly relations in class. In addition, we quantitatively found that LX had the significant positive correlations with intrinsic and identified motivation, presence in classroom, mastery goal, and self-efficacy.
