Relationship Between Achievement Motivation and Academic Performance

Abstract

This research was conducted to study the relationship between achievement motivation and academic performance after covid, between two schools, from urban and rural school settings. Through the process of judgemental sampling also known as purposive sampling, 80 Indian students pursuing their secondary education (N=80) were surveyed for the study, aged 16 and 17. The procedure included for the students to fill in 140 survey questions in the Achievement Motivation Profile on a Likert scale ranging from 1-5, after which grades (in the form of GPA) of end semester of the students were collected for secondary examinations conducted after covid-19, which were analysed using standard deviations and t-tests. One of the two major predictors of academic achievement have been highlighted, which are motivation and attitude. The results of the study depict that, females were observed to have higher motivation in number compared to the males. The urban students have moderate motivation in number compared to the rural students. In case of the relationship between achievement motivation and academic achievement it was observed that there was no significant relation, rather, weak correlation between achievement motivation and academic achievement between urban – rural students and boy – girl students.