Motivation Study in the E-Book Creation Based on Local Wisdom Content by Preservice Teachers

Abstract

This research article aimed to examine and compare preservice teachers’ motivation toward creating electronic books based on local wisdom content. The participants consisted of 72 second-year students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in Teaching Profession Program at Northern College during the first semester of the 2025 academic year. The participants were selected through purposive sampling, with the criterion that they were enrolled in the teaching practicum course. This study employed a mixed-method research design. The research instruments included a lesson plan for e-book creation, which demonstrated a high level of content validity with an overall mean score of 4.33, and a motivation assessment measuring students’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation toward creating electronic books on local wisdom content. The motivation assessment comprised a rating-scale questionnaire and open-ended questions. The Index of Item–Objective Congruence (IOC) yielded validity scores of 0.83 for the questionnaire and 0.75 for the open-ended questions. Data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, and paired-samples t-test.

The findings revealed that the overall levels of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation toward e-book creation were at the highest level (x̅ = 4.57, S.D. = 0.48). The comparison results indicated that intrinsic motivation was significantly higher than extrinsic motivation at the .05 level. These findings suggest that learning activities involving electronic book creation effectively enhance both intrinsic and extrinsic learning motivation. Furthermore, such activities support students in achieving learning objectives while promoting digital literacy skills and self-directed learning through independent inquiry.