Analyzing the transition of learners’ motivation to learn programming

In this research, a model of motivation design called ARCS was used to analyze the transition of learnerspsila motivation to learn programming. The students were in an art and design course, and a programming environment specialized for design/art called Processing was used to teach introductory programming to the students. The questionnaire based on the ARCS model was conducted three times: early, middle, and late in the course. From the analysis of the questionnaire, it has been found that the change of the motivation from early to middle in the course was more remarkable than the change from middle to late in the course. Therefore, it was important to raise and maintain the motivation of the learners in the early stage of the course. It has also been found that the correlation between the factors in the ARCS model increased as the learning progressed. Therefore, the instructors should prepare their teaching materials in such a way that the four factors in the ARCS model are balanced.