Promoting students’ autonomous motivation for the ongoing curriculum using a ‘Societal Impact Project’ with basic psychological needs characteristics

Results showed that the intervention group reported significantly higher enjoyment and perceived value in their regular curricula, while other outcomes showed no significant differences. These findings highlight both the potential and limits of extracurricular interventions in impacting students’ motivation within their ongoing curricula. Dataset Data were collected from two groups: an intervention group who participated in the project, and a control group who did not.

Surveys were administered before and after the intervention period. The SPSS dataset contains the survey responses and calculated variables, measured for students’ regular curricula in the pre- and post-tests: • Basic psychological need satisfaction (autonomy, competence, relatedness • Motivation types: autonomous motivation and controlled motivation) • enjoyment and perceived value • Well-being The abbreviations: • AS_pre: autonomy satisfaction_pre-test • RS_pre: relatedness satisfaction_pre-test • CS_pre: competence satisfaction_pre-test • IM_to know_pre: intrinsic motivation to know_pre-test • IM_to accomplish_pre: intrinsic motivation toward accomplishment_pre-test • IM_to experience_pre: intrinsic motivation to experience stimulation_pre-test • IDF_pre: extrinsic motivation_identified_pre-test • Introjected_pre: extrinsic motivation_introjected_pre-test • External_pre: extrinsic motivation_external regulation_pre-test • IM_pre: general intrinsic motivation_pre-test • AM_pre: autonomous motivation_pre-test • CM_pre: controlled motivation_pre-test • IMIinterest_pre: enjoyment_pre-test • IMIUsefulness_pre: usefulness/value_pre-test • WB_pre: well-being_pre-test If the variable ends with “_post”, it represents the same abbreviation, but in post-test.

The attached word document explains which survey items correspond to which variables and questions. Items for post-tests have the suffix of ‘_po’, otherwise are used for pre-tests.