Studying Motivation and Productivity in Academic Research. A Methodological Proposal

This study is a brief overview of the field of motivation and productivity in academic research and, also, of the link between these two concepts. It presents the factors that influence teachers' motivation and productivity and a methodological proposal for data collection. There are described the steps proposed for the collection of data: developing the instrument, testing the instrument, data collection, data analysis and model development. In addition it comprises a brief presentation of the steps undertaken so far and also the results I have obtained (regarding the instrument development and the content validity test).