Common use of Study Limitations Clause in Contracts

Study Limitations. The present study has some limitations. The motivational information was phrased as if an adult told the students why the assignment was important or fun to do. The motivational information might therefore have been interpreted differently by the students than we intended, and was maybe not powerful enough to make any difference (i.e., in the case of intrinsic information). Furthermore, a mismatch between student and environment could explain our results. In general, adolescent students are more extrinsically oriented and might have doubted the intrinsic information. Also, we did not find significant differences between the groups on the intrinsic information manipulation check. This implies that the written statements that supplied intrinsic motivational information were not perceived as such and might not have had the impact that was intended. This might explain why the results for students in the intrinsic groups were not statistically different from students in the control groups. So, a challenge for motivation researchers is to design their interventions in such a way that students understand the interventions the way they are intended.