Education Endowment Foundation: Academic Amotivation Inventory

About the measure

Subscales

Value of task; Ability beliefs; Task characteristics; Effort belief

Example

Students are asked to rate reasons for a lack of motivation and rate them. e.g. Because I’m a bit lazy

Key Stage

Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5

Domains

Meta-cognition, Motivation, goal orientation and perseverance

Rating Psychometric

Rating Implementation

Implementation

No. of items

16

Format

Likert

Respondent

Self

Scoring

Standardised

Age

12 – 18 year(s)

Cost single purchase

Free – Available

Cost per child

Free – Available

Psychometric

UK norms

No

Chronbach's alpha

.76-.89

Text retest

Not reported

Inter-rater reliability

Not reported

EFA

4‑factor oblique

CFA

SB-Chi-square(101) = 455.92N = 741p= .001CFI= .94NNFI= .93RMSEA= .05SRMR = .06

Criterion validity

Not reported

Construct validity

r= [.04,.41] with indifference about academics; r= [.06,.30] with academic anxiety; r= [-.46,-.15] with academic self-esteem

Predictive validity

Not reported

Responsiveness

Not reported

Floor/Ceiling

Not reported

References

Green-Demers, I., Legault, L., Pelletier, D., & Pelletier, L. G. (2008). Factorial invariance of the Academic Amotivation Inventory (AAI) across gender and grade in a sample of Canadian high school students. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 68(5), 862 – 880. doi:10.1177/0013164407313368 Legault, L., Green-Demers, I., & Pelletier, L. (2006). Why do high school students lack motivation in the classroom? Toward an understanding of academic amotivation and the role of social support. Journal of Educational Psychology, 98(3), 567 – 582. doi:10.1037/0022 – 0663.98.3.567