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Academic motivation is an essential part of learning and achievement. It is the most important factor that leads one to one’s goals. This drive is known as motivation. This study aims at investigating the effect of academic motivation on secondary school-students gender and habitat wise. The authors adopted a test (Bhattacharya, 1980) on academic motivation selecting 6 (six) dimensions. Internal consistency of test was found by Cronbach Alpha. The test was administered on 700 ninth grade students of both sexes drawn from different schools under West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. The analysis with ANOVA conclusively showed that students significantly differ sex wise on academic motivation, but there is no significant difference between urban & rural students or in any strata of them.
Achievement Motivation is an important ability that determines what a person can do and a motivation determines what a person will do. Thus motivation plays an important role in improving the level of performance. Here in this paper, it aimed to explore the actual relation between Achievement Motivation and Academic Achievement of the Secondary level students in Uttar Dinajpur District. The investigators adopted Deo-Mohan Achievement Motivation Scale (2011) to examine the Achievement Motivation and collected the final result of previous year of the secondary level student for Academic Achievement. The investigators analysed the collected data with Pearson's correlation method to explore the correlations. The present study found the non-significant relationship between Achievement Motivation and Academic Achievement of the students of Uttar Dinajpur District. A positive correlation (r = .06) between Achievement Motivation and Academic Achievement was found among the total samples specially among the girls (r = 0.147), urban (r = 0.032) and rural (r = 0.077) students and a negative but negligible correlation (r =-.042) was found among the boy students.
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Motivational techniques can increase the performance of the person. The factors that affect motivation for study and contributes to affective motivation is home. Here the role of parents in the development of motivation for study cannot be minimized. Society is another important factor that affects motivation for study and contributes to effective motivation of the students. Without motivation to learn, there is no worthwhile learning. Therefore, in this study an attempt was made to compare Secondary Students’ motivation for studies in Purba Medinipur District of West Bengal with respect to some selected variables as relevant influencing factors.
In the present day world, it has been observed that there is an increase in lack of motivation among the students towards their academics especially when they reach high school because at this stage their attention is diverted and divided among many things like peer group, heterogeneous relations, fashion and incessant entertainment and this hampers their academic performance. So, the present paper is an attempt to find out the relationship between Academic Motivation and Academic Achievement of Class IX students of Assam, India. Tool used for the study is Academic Achievement Motivation Test by T.R. Sharma and for the academic achievement the final year examination results were taken. The findings of the study revealed a significant positive relationship between academic motivation and academic achievement. There is a significant difference in Academic Motivation between high and low achievers. But there is a significant sex difference within low achievers with respect to academic motivation.
The present paper attempts to study the level of achievement motivation among male and female ICDEOL and IGNOU teacher trainees of Himachal Pradesh. Achievement motivation inventory developed by Dr. J.P. Srivastava was administered on a sample of 200 teacher trainees selected through random cluster sampling technique from ICDEOL and IGNOU teacher training institution. To analyze the achievement motivation scores of male and female students belonging to ICDEOL and IGNOU groups t-test is used. The results indicated that there is significant difference in Academic Motivation of ICDEOL and IGNOU Teacher Trainees.
EDUQUEST AN INTERNATIONAL REFEREED JOURNAL IN EDUCATION ISSN: 2277 - 3614 Vol.6, Issue:I January-June,
ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION LEVEL STUDENTS OF WEST BENGAL2017 •
Achievement motivation among the student of higher education level has been considered as a vital factor for the improvement of the education system and thus it has got on unshakeable place in research area. One way ANOVA were used to analyse data. The findings revealed that most of the students i.e. 98% possessed average motivation (63.5%) to above average motivation (15.5%), very few students i.e. 20.1% possessed below average achievement motivation and almost negligible percentage of students i.e. .9% showed low achievement motivation. There is no significant difference in Achievement motivation among UG & PG Students with respect to Gender, Level of Education, and tuition status, Family Income. There is significant difference in achievement motivation between the students with regard to their habitat.
Academic achievement attains by motivation. There is great need of motivation for students, because motivation effects the academic achievement of the students. The present study is about the academic achievement motivation of the children. Academic motivation involves measuring items such as work habits and scholastic expectation. Achievement motivation plays an important role to achieve educational goals of the students. It was found that Private school students had more academic achievement motivation than government school students at senior secondary level.
Achievement motivation is considered as a prerequisite for academic success. The present study was carried out with the objectives to investigate the gender related differences, residence related differences and academic majors related differences on achievement motivation among scheduled caste higher secondary students. The study was carried on 565 scheduled caste students of various colleges from Allahabad District. The sample comprised of 210 Arts (37.2%), 41 Commerce (7.3%) and 314 Science (55.6 %) scheduled caste students of XI class wherein total of 336 male (59.5%) & 229 female (40.5%) and 286 urban (50.6%) & 279 rural (49.4%). To measure the Achievement Motivation, the Achievement Motivation Inventory was used. tTest was used for deriving the results. Significant difference was found between the achievement motivation of science & arts and science & commerce stream students. Achievement Motivation of male & female and rural & urban students was found not significant. The dif...
Adolescence marks the transitional stage from childhood and adult hood. It is a stage when there is tremendous growth in the child’s physical , emotional , social and academic aspects. Education system should emphasis on the development of the adolescent in an achievement motivated manner for a well developed society. The study revealed that socio economic variables are positively correlated to achievement motivation . The relationship between socio economic variables and achievement motivation is higher in boys than girls. Urban students show high relationship to socio economic variables and achievement motivation when compared to rural students; and students of private schools shows higher relation ship between socio economic variables and achievement motivation in the case of government school students.
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