Psychometric Properties of Two Measures of Intrinsic Motivation

1 October 1981

journal article
Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills

Vol. 53 (2) , 655-658
https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1981.53.2.655

Abstract

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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