A Study of University Students’ Motivation and Its Relationship with Their Academic Performance
By H. Afzal, Imran Ali, M. Khan, K. Hamid. 2010
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God-gifted talents, best teachers and best schooling augment the academic performance and students’ motivation is prerequisite for students’ accomplishment. This study attempts to identify the influence of students’motivation on their academic performance. The sample of 342 individuals studying in different universities of Pakistan was selected. Questionnaires comprising three parts were sent directly to targeted segment. In the first part, the first few questions are related to personal information; second part consists of thirty questions of “The University Student Motivation and Satisfaction Questionnaire Version 2”, which was used to measure students’ extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and last part is related to academics performance of the students. The study delineates that students’ motivationsdimensions extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation has positive impact on academic performance of students. Academics performance amplifies between the ranges of 23 percent and 34 percent due to extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation and the overall model is significant (p
Subfields: Information Systems, Social Psychology
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- Five Key Ingredients for Improving Student Motivation (2011, unknown): “(Dean and Dagostino, 2007; Daniels, 2010; Bye, Pushkar, and Conway, 2007; Afzal, et al., 2010) • Various individual and social factors: Overall academic motivation is affected by various individual and social factors.”
- Effects of e-learning on Students’ Motivation☆ (2015, background): “…motivation of students is an important issue in higher education, mainly owing to significance of academic performance in their professional life (Afzal et al., 2010), this study will be helpful for educational thinkers in developing countries to better comprehend the effects of e-learning on…”