Research on Motivation Patterns of Chinese-American Students

[Margaret Lim]

Are you a second, third, or fourth generation Chinese American? If so, I especially need your input!

I am a graduate student at UC-Berkeley in a master's and teacher credentialing program. For my master's thesis, I am doing a study on motivation patterns among Chinese American students. I am interested in how motivation patterns change through elementary school, middle school, high school, and into adulthood. I will be examining the reflections of Chinese-American adults looking back at each of these time periods. I am hoping to reach a wide range of Chinese-Americans, across generations (immigrants, 1st generation, 2nd generation, etc), across ages, and across background experiences. I am also hoping to see if the amount of time a family has been in the US affects motivation patterns.

Of particular challenge to me has been reaching a significant audience of second generation (or 3rd, 4th, and beyond) Chinese Americans. If you all within this category, will you please consider taking this survey? The survey should take approx 10 minutes and is completely anonymous. Your experiences and reflections are extremely valuable, and the combined results of this survey and project will help me immensely in my teaching practices. If you are able to participate to assist, the URL for the survey is:

https://www.surveykey.com/take-survey.cfm?surveykey=9665187676

Thanks so much for your assistance!

[gato]

I think it might be more effective if you just passed out the surveys to a few classes at Berkeley. Try those introductory biology, chemistry pre-med classes if you don't care about the problem of selection bias. There should be plenty of ABCs on campus nowadays. There are probably a couple of thousand students who fit the criteria.

[Margaret Lim]

Thanks for the suggestion of passing the survey out to students in classes. The reason I haven't chosen to do that is (1) the survey is online; and (2) I am hoping to get a more diverse audience than just college students, especially since I have questions in the survey that relate to adult behavior patterns.

Hope you'll be able to take the survey!

[Lu]

If you post the survey on the internet like this, you don't know if the respondents are really Chinese Americans, and you wouldn't notice if people filled it in more than once. Won't the outcome be mostly worthless?

[geek_frappa]

furthermore, you could not report your findings with 95% confidence.

thus, your study may not receive positive peer review, especially at.... Berkley...

i hope it does well, since it is an excellent topic, though

5 possible ways to find "populations".

1. Chinese Newspapers

2. English-Chinese Mixed Language Newspaper

3. Chinese Churchs

4. Chinese Heritage Language Schools

5. Chinese Supermarkets (talk to the managers)

you are a master's student so I don't need to remind you about the inferences made when you are looking for "motivations". motivation is a perception conceived from cultural conditioning on what is deemed proper behavior by society. i am trusting that you are going to move out of the box and explore how gender, race and class affects Chinese-American ..... motivations.