Psychometric Properties of Two Measures of Intrinsic Motivation

Howard's Maze Test and Maw and Maw's Which-to-Discuss Test were individually administered to 25 educable mentally retarded junior high school students. Although the internal consistency of both tests was acceptably high (.81 and .90, respectively), scores were essentially unrelated to a ho...

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Published in:	Perceptual and motor skills Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 655 - 658
Main Authors:	Silverstein, A. B., Pearson, Linda Brownlee, Dunnick, Belinda Fay, Ford, Theresa Marie
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-10-1981 Perceptual and Motor Skills, etc
Subjects:	Adolescent Education of Intellectually Disabled Female Humans Intellectual Disability - psychology Male Motivation Psychological Tests
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Summary:	Howard's Maze Test and Maw and Maw's Which-to-Discuss Test were individually administered to 25 educable mentally retarded junior high school students. Although the internal consistency of both tests was acceptably high (.81 and .90, respectively), scores were essentially unrelated to a host of demographic and other types of variables. Moreover, the correlation between scores on the two instruments was only –.06. It was suggested that the tests might better be described as measures of diversive curiosity and specific curiosity, respectively, than as measures of intrinsic motivation.
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ISSN:	0031-5125 1558-688X
DOI:	10.2466/pms.1981.53.2.655