| dc.description.abstract | An undergraduate thesis is one of the final projects that students must complete when pursuing a bachelor’s degree. In the process of writing an undergraduate thesis, students will experience several difficulties which can affect the completion time of the undergraduate thesis. Therefore, motivation can be an influential factor in writing an undergraduate thesis. Motivation is divided into intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation comes from the person himself, while extrinsic motivation comes from external factors such as avoiding punishment and getting rewards.
The survey design aims to reveal the completion time for writing an undergraduate thesis and the level of students’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in writing an undergraduate thesis. The ex-post facto design aims to determine the significant differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in writing an undergraduate thesis. Then, the correlation design aims to determine the contribution of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to the completion time of an undergraduate thesis writing. The sample of this study was 45 students who had graduated from one of the private universities in Malang. The instrument of this research is the Writing Motivation Scale (WMS). The first and second research questions were answered using descriptive statistics, the third research question was answered using an independent sample t-test, and the third research question was answered using correlation.
This study reveals that the average student takes 6.3 months to write an undergraduate thesis. It also shows that students need more than one term to write their undergraduate thesis. The results of the analysis state that the fastest time to write an undergraduate thesis is 2 months to the longest time is 18 months. The data uncovers that the mean intrinsic and extrinsic levels in writing an undergraduate thesis are 3.69 and 3.19. This shows that intrinsic motivation is at a high level of interpretation, while extrinsic motivation is at a moderate level. Furthermore, the researcher found a significant difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in writing an undergraduate thesis with a p-value of .001. This is because there is a range of mean differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation of 0.50, with a mean score for intrinsic motivation of 3.69 and a mean score for extrinsic motivation of 3.19.
Data from this study shows that there is no significant correlation between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to the completion time of an undergraduate thesis, with an intrinsic motivation coefficient of -.01 and an extrinsic coefficient of .02. The researcher used the effect size to determine the contribution between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in writing an undergraduate thesis. The effect size results for intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are 0.01% and 0.04%, this shows that the contribution of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation to the time completion of an undergraduate thesis is small. Apart from that, extrinsic motivation has a higher contribution than intrinsic motivation in the length of time for required to complete an undergraduate thesis.
The findings of this research suggest that students need to maintain intrinsic motivation and increase supporting factors of intrinsic motivation. Moreover, students are also expected to have extrinsic motivation. Then, the researcher expected academic staff, including advisors and administration staff, to help the students process in completing an undergraduate thesis. Advisors can help by managing schedules better, using modern tools as a means of communication, and increasing knowledge and experience in the field of study. Administrative staff can help by facilitating the administrative process by updating more relevant regulations and preventing misalignment about the function of administrative bodies. For future researchers, the researcher expected to use interviews to obtain more data and examine other factors such as self-efficacy, campus environment, and the need for achievement.
Keywords: writing, motivation, undergraduate thesis | en_US |
