  While motivation is of great interest to computing educators, relatively
little work has been done on understanding faculty attitudes toward student
motivation. Two previous qualitative studies of instructor attitudes found
results identical to those from other disciplines, but neither study considered
whether instructors perceive student motivation to be more important in certain
computing classes. In this work we present quantitative results about the
perceived importance of student motivation in computing courses on the part of
computing educators. Our survey results show that while a majority of
respondents believe student motivation is necessary in all computing courses,
the structure and audience in certain computing classes elevate the importance
of student motivation.
