The purpose of this study was to see the effectiveness of the Group Art Therapy on elementary students' learning motivation and scholastic self-efficiency. From June 17, 2005 to October 14, 2005, the study had applied as following processes : an colle...
The purpose of this study was to see the effectiveness of the Group Art Therapy on elementary students' learning motivation and scholastic self-efficiency. From June 17, 2005 to October 14, 2005, the study had applied as following processes : an collecting and selecting of participants, pre-testing, applying the Group Art Therapy, and post-testing. The study participants were students who attend in their 2nd-3rd grade in elementary school in D city and have considerably low in both their learning motivation and scholastic self-efficiency levels. For experimental and control group, four students was placed in each group and, especially on experimental group, the program was proceeded 90 minutes each session, once a week, total of 16 sessions. The process had four steps; beginning stage(1st~4th sessions), observing stage(5th~8th sessions), performing stage(9th~13th sessions), and closing stage(14th~16th sessions). The scales that used for this study were the Motivation Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) (Pintrich, Smith, Gracia & Mckeachie, 1991) and Han(2002)'s adapted version of the Scholastic Self-Efficiency Scale for elementary students.
The followings were the conclusions obtained by the study results and its discussion,
First, the Group Art Therapy has improved elementary students' learning motivation. Before applying the therapy, students generally had no interest in studying, negative value to oneself, shame and frustration to one's performance, negative perception even before he/she tried, expectation of failure, and little self-confidence. These behaviors has been changed by therapy.
Second, the Group Art Therapy has improved elementary students' scholastic self-efficiency level. In detail, the students were more confident of studying, changed one's behavior more actively as expecting a better result of his/her effort.
To conclude, it was identified that this study, the Group Art Therapy, have had effects on improving elementary students' learning motivation and scholastic self-efficiency.
Some limitation from this study's results also could be listed as followed,
The participants were only eight students in their 2nd-3rd grade in elementary school so that it has limited to obtain statistical representation of sampling, therefore, the results could not be generalized. In addition, each student showed different score ranges and contents, and there would be needed further researches about the reason. Further researches might be applied individually and followed due to observe a durability of effect. These showed that further research is needed to deal with these limitations.