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Motivational Interventions in Civic Education (MIiCE)
MIiCE aims to develop and investigate a psychological intervention to promote motivation in civic education. With the help of a randomized controlled trial, we test the effects of short interventions that are designed to help students to feel efficacious and experience meaning when learning about political and social issues. The target group of the study is adolescents in the 9th grade.
The project MIiCE investigates whether brief psychological interventions can be used to promote self-efficacy, the perceived value, and personal meaning of civic education. The aim is to develop an intervention that promotes motivation in civic education in order to foster political learning and the acquisition of political skills.
The project will use a randomized control trial to test the effects of the intervention on motivation, learning behavior, and political competencies. With the help of a short task, the intervention is intended to help pupils develop a mindset that is conducive to learning, to perceive themselves as a significant part of society, and to recognize a sense of purpose in learning about political and social issues.
The study will be conducted in the 9th grade to examine effects of a short intervention on motivation and emotions concerning political learning as well as learning behavior. The results of this study will serve as an initial evaluation and should help to further develop the intervention.
Findings from MIiCE should help to understand motivational processes in learning about politics and overcome frequently experienced barriers in civic education. Further, the results should help teachers to design civic education classes in a way that supports as many students as possible to take advantage of the civic learning opportunities in school.
