Work in progress-motivation profiles of non-major computer programmers in a flipped classroom environment

This work in progress paper focuses on investigating different motivational profiles of students in a computer programming course that uses flipped classroom pedagogy. The flipped classroom is an educational concept that is growing in popularity, where the traditional class-lecture and home-work are inverted to home-lecture and class-work. This work focuses on the formation of motivational profiles of students participating in the flipped classroom environment. Based on the theory of intrinsic motivation, we used a portion of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory, specifically the interest, values, and perceived choice scales, to ask students about their motivation in their programming course. Previous work reported initial responses to the IMI scales and compared these results to performance in the class. In this work, we will use cluster analysis to determine if different motivational profiles impact performance in the flipped classroom environment. Analysis of two semesters of data is on-going and will be reported in the full paper.