Hallgatói motivációk változása az egyetemi évek alatt = The change of the student motivation through the university years

Abstract

Nowadays lifelong learning gets a lot of attention. Humans learn for a lifetime. If an individual does not have enough motivation, if learning is just compulsion and there is no internal conviction, then learning will be rather a burden and in this way its efficiency can be questionable. It is important to investigate the motivations of students, who are currently studying in higher education. According to our study, the students at the beginning of their university years were motivated to acquire new knowledge and also thanks to were open to new opportunities, but this enthusiasm was decreasing over the years. Our main research question is to find out how to increase or at least retain students’ motivation. We investigated the motivations of students at the university, depending on what kind of training system they are studying in.