Abstract:

Motivation plays a pivotal role in education, since it constitutes the backbone of learning process. This article explores the defining and tracking of factors that positively affect the development of learning motivation in school students from a perspective of a diagnostic assessment. It offers a model of applying eduScrum at elementary school with the aim of increasing the younger school-age children’s learning motivation. The eduScrum framework for a total of 64 third grade students learning environmental science consists of five stages, i.e. project planning, team formation, project implementation, project review and project retrospective. Learning motivation at the environmental science lessons is influenced by the capacities of the teacher to promote teamwork skills, self-studying skills and self-regulatory skills. The conclusions allow us to infer that eduScrum is a student-centered learning approach that serves to emphasize cooperation and team work in a self-regulated environment.

Keywords:

Learning motivation, eduScrum, environmental science, younger school-age children, diagnostic assessment.