To what extent do the following reasons improve your motivation to participate actively in seminars? | Mean (SD) | ≥4 (%) | ||
I wanted to write down the correct answers myself, so I don’t have to rely on the wiki’s | 3.99 (1.06) | 79.2 | ||
I want to better understand the content by discussing with my peers | 3.77 (1.02) | 69.3 | ||
I want my subgroup to be able to present the correct answer during the plenary discussion | 3.74 (0.92) | 68.1 | ||
I wanted to be able to criticize the correctness and completeness of answers given by other subgroups | 2.96 (1.02) | 31.9 | ||
I knew the teacher would not provided us the correct answer, therefore I wanted to find out the correct answers myself | 2.91 (1.12) | 33.0 | ||
It was easier to ask the teacher for help, when the assignments were discussed with my peers | 2.84 (1.15) | 33.0 | ||
I expected that active participation would lead to goodwill of our teacher to provide us with additional clues | 2.62 (1.16) | 23.1 | ||
I wanted to find out which assignments should be discussed in the Meet The Expert session | 1.68 (0.91) | 4.4 | ||
To what extent do the following reasons decrease your motivation to participate actively in seminars? | Mean (SD) | ≥4 (%) | Mean (SD) students not attending | ≥4 (%) |
I did not want to explain everything to my (unprepared) peers | 1.91 (1.14) | 12.1 | 2.36 (1.29) | 27.3 |
Repetition of the assignments during the seminar; First in peer-discussion followed by plenary discussion | 2.43 (1.16) | 20.9 | 2.45 (0.93) | 9.1 |
I knew that the correct answer would be placed on the wiki | 1.98 (1.03) | 7.7 | 2.18 (0.98) | 9.1 |
I knew the teacher would not provide us with the correct answer | 1.95 (1.04) | 6,6 | 2.36 (1.21) | 9.1 |
I am not interested in the content of this course | 2.16 (1.07) | 9.9 | 1.91 (0.83) | 0 |
I knew my peers would prepare the assignments | 1.90 (0.90) | 5.5 | 1.73 (0.79) | 0 |