Application Of ARCS Model Of Motivation Design In Biology Teaching For Senior Students

After the new college entrance examination reform,the status of biology has been improved and schools attach more importance to biology.However,it is not easy to achieve excellent results in biological tests,and it is also difficult to learn biology well by merely memorizing facts,without enough learning motivation.If the goals of students' learning biology are just out of some external reasons,such as the urge from parents and teachers,the aim to pass the college entrance examination etc.,but not out of love for the subject and the thirst for knowledge,the students' learning motivation will easily fall into a state of low level.Therefore,teachers need to pay attention to motivation design in biology classroom teaching.The ARCS motivation design pattern was put forward by the famous psychologist John M.Keller.The theory holds that the students' learning motivation is affect by the following four factors: attention,relevance,confidence,and satisfaction.The main purpose of the ARCS motivation design pattern is to motivate and maintain students' learning motivation.This thesis aims to discuss the use of ARCS motivation design pattern in biology teaching.The pattern is applied in Furong senior school,with two experimental groups carrying out the motivation design pattern and the other two groups using the routine teaching.After two months' teaching practice,the result shows that ARCS model do have obvious effect on stimulating students' learning motivation and improving students' biological scores.As a consequence,this model does have the guiding value for the biology teaching,and it is worth applying in senior biology teaching.