Factors affecting english self-efficacy in english learning of high school student in china

Abstract

This study aims to explore effect of experiential learning on learning motivation in the ideological and political education of first-year college students. In this study, 40 first-year college students from Jiuquan Vocational and Technical College were randomly divided into experimental group and control group, 20 in each group. Experimental group was given experiential learning, control group was not given experiential learning. This study adopts quasi-experimental design and quantitative data analysis. The influence of experiential learning on the learning motivation of first-year college students ideological and political education was investigated by using pre-test and post-test control group.The tools used in this study were as follows :1) Experiential learning program can improve the learning motivation of ideological and political education of college students through four components: concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract generalization and active practice; 2) The learning motivation scale had a total reliability of 0.96. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, mean, standard deviation, percentage, and t-test for dependent samples and independent samples. After the experiment, it was found that the learning motivation in the ideological and political education of first-year college students of experimental group was higher than the control group and before the experiment, with statistical significance at 0.001 level.

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