Relationship between Personality and Academic Motivation in Education Degrees Students

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Some spelling correction should be done 

References  are quite old. I suggest to find some updated references from 2015 to date.

the research design should be better explained, as is a little confusing.

In general, language is fine. However, is important to remember that english is more concise than spanish, On my reading it seems that is too literal translated from spanish.

 

Author Response

Thank you very much for your comments and suggestions.

First of all, I asked to an American friend to check the spelling and grammar of the paper.

We have included updated references from 2015 to date as:

1. Riveiro, J., Suárez, A., Sánchez, V. & Menéndez, Á. Incidencia de las estrategias motivacionales de valor sobre las estrategias cognitivas y metacognitivas en estudiantes de secundaria. Revista Complutense de Educación, 2016, 27(2), 421-435.
2. Navarro, M., Utreras, E. & Ugarte, C. Rasgos de personalidad, Percepción de apoyo social y Motivación de logro como predictores del rendimiento académico en estudiantes pertenecientes a programas de inclusión y permanencia en la educación universitaria (PACE). 2019, Revista Pedagogía Universitaria y Didáctica del Derecho, 6(2), 59-80.
3. Furr, R. & Funder, D. Persons, situations and person-situation interactions. In Handbook of personality: Theory and research, 4th ed. John, O.P. & Robins R.W. Eds Guilford: New York. 2018, 1-42.
4. Lomelí-Parga, A., Valenzuela-González, J. & López-Padilla, M. Autoestima, motivación e inteligencia emocional: Tres factores influyentes en el diseño exitoso de un proyecto de vida de jóvenes estudiantes de educación media. Revista Electrónica Educare, 2016, 20(2), 56-77.
5. Manosalvas, C., Manosalvas, L., Yolanda, Y. & Chafla. Personalidad y liderazgo: análisis teórico de su relación. INNOVA Research Journal, 2017, 2(5),106-114
6. Mozelius, P., Fagerström, A., & Söderquist, M. Motivating factors and intrinsic integration of knowledge in educational games. In Proceedings of The 10th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL),
7. Alonso, J., Ruiz, M.A. & Huertas, J.A. Differences in classroom motivational climate: causes, effects and implications for teacher education. A multilevel study. Anales de Psicología, 2020, 36 (1), 122-133.

Finally, we have also try to explain better the design of our research. Hope we got it.

Kind regards

Reviewer 2 Report

This article was hard to read, so it was hard to tell if the research was solid or not. In almost every sentence there were major grammatical mistakes. Some had as many as 4 in one sentence. I had to guess at what a word was actually supposed to be and this took away from the validity of the paper. This may be a strong article with a solid methodology, but I cannot tell as it was not clearly written.

Author Response

I would like to apologize for the major grammatical mistakes the paper has had. I asked to a professional to translate it, but I guess it didn´t work as I expected.

This time I asked to an American friend of mine to check the writting of the paper, I hope this time it is understandable.

Thank you very much for your time.

Reviewer 3 Report

The introduction section could be improved if the authors include some more recent work.

In the description of the participants, they should indicate data such as the mean age of the sample in years.

Check the citation in the text. To do this, comply with the regulations of the magazine.

Tables 2 and 3 can be deleted and their content written in the text.

Please include a paragraph in the procedure section, where reference is made to ethical aspects of the research ... was an informed consent form used? Was the study submitted to the evaluation of an ethics committee? In this case, it is important to indicate which committee has evaluated the research and the reference number of its approval.

Author Response

 Thank you very much for your comments. We have tried to follow them so we made the following changes:

1.- We tried to improve the introduction section including more recent work:

1. Riveiro, J., Suárez, A., Sánchez, V. & Menéndez, Á. Incidencia de las estrategias motivacionales de valor sobre las estrategias cognitivas y metacognitivas en estudiantes de secundaria. Revista Complutense de Educación, 2016, 27(2), 421-435.
2. Navarro, M., Utreras, E. & Ugarte, C. Rasgos de personalidad, Percepción de apoyo social y Motivación de logro como predictores del rendimiento académico en estudiantes pertenecientes a programas de inclusión y permanencia en la educación universitaria (PACE). 2019, Revista Pedagogía Universitaria y Didáctica del Derecho, 6(2), 59-80.
3. Furr, R. & Funder, D. Persons, situations and person-situation interactions. In Handbook of personality: Theory and research, 4th ed. John, O.P. & Robins R.W. Eds Guilford: New York. 2018, 1-42.
4. Lomelí-Parga, A., Valenzuela-González, J. & López-Padilla, M. Autoestima, motivación e inteligencia emocional: Tres factores influyentes en el diseño exitoso de un proyecto de vida de jóvenes estudiantes de educación media. Revista Electrónica Educare, 2016, 20(2), 56-77.
5. Manosalvas, C., Manosalvas, L., Yolanda, Y. & Chafla. Personalidad y liderazgo: análisis teórico de su relación. INNOVA Research Journal, 2017, 2(5),106-114
6. Mozelius, P., Fagerström, A., & Söderquist, M. Motivating factors and intrinsic integration of knowledge in educational games. In Proceedings of The 10th European Conference on Games Based Learning (ECGBL),
7. Alonso, J., Ruiz, M.A. & Huertas, J.A. Differences in classroom motivational climate: causes, effects and implications for teacher education. A multilevel study. Anales de Psicología, 2020, 36 (1), 122-133.

2.- We have included the mean age of the sample in line 155.

3.- We have checked the citation in the text and the reference list in order to make concordance.

4.- We didn´t deleted Tables 2 and 3 but adapted them to a better understanding as another reviewer suggested to us.

5.-  We made reference to the ethical aspects of the research in the  procedure section. They are highlighted in yellow.

I hope we get to improve our paper as you suggested.

Thank you for your time.

Reviewer 4 Report

I find the article has many technical and thematic weaknesses.
1. the literature labeling is not consistent.
2. the theory part needs a much better structuring and a derivation of research questions
3. hypotheses or research questions must be formulated. The further course of the article should be oriented towards
4. in table 2 and 3, please use English captions, and if the answer categories are there, then also as it was in the original
5. at 2.4 Procedure the procedure of data collection should be described. So it is very imprecise
6. the evaluation must be fundamentally revised and structured on the basis of research questions
6.1 Please work with an alpha value (e.g. 5%). There are no different significance values. Please analyze especially the effect strengths - the effect strengths are not the same.
6.2 Always report effect strengths
6.3 Tables and graphics in English
6.4 Graphics please in black and white or clear different colors
6.5 Please explain why you do not calculate parametric procedures
6.6 Instead of overalltest please test more specifically - especially from 3.3 on - but also before
7. adapt the discussion as well. Here are missing limitations and an outlook

Author Response

Thank you very much for your comments.

We have made the following changes in base to your considerations:

1.- We have updated the references made in the article. They are marked in yellow in the paper´s references. This way we also tried to improve the structure and coherence of our theory part (all the changes are marked in yellow).

3.- The hypotheses have been clearly formulated and enumerated at the last paragraph of the theoretical frame work, responding to four research questions.

4.- We transformed Tables 2 and 3 to show the original questionnary items formulated in Spanish and translated to English below them in italics.

5.- We have being more specific describing the procedure of the research, hopping a better understanding of the entire research process. The added parts are highlighted in yellow.

6.- We have organized the results in base to the research questions, being more specific in the results. In order to accomplish this demand, we have added the discussion of each result after the corresponding graphic.

7.- We have added the Alpha value in line 271 and we have included the effect strengths in the results of our Mann Whitney analysis, as this kind of analysis it is the one were we can use the r of Rosenthal as they compare two independent groups.

8.- We have also explained why we used non parametric procedures, as testing the sample distribution through Kolmogorov-Smirnoff analysis we found significant differences.

9.- We added limitations of the study in the discussion part.

10.- We have made all graphics again in order to show clearer colours, and translate the whole figures to English.

We hope the theoretical frame work and the technical aspects of our article have been improved in order to publish it in Education Sciences.

Thank you for your time

Round 2

Reviewer 4 Report

The study has improved significantly overall and, in my view, can be published as such.