The Study of the relationships between achievement motivation, learning engagement and Goal achievement with meaning of education in Bojnourd high school's students

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Naser  Bojnourdi shilgani ¹ (M.Sc. of Education Management, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd- Iran)
mahboubeh  soleimanpour omran ² (Assistant professor Bojnourd- Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd- Islamic Azad University)

Received: 2016-12-30 Accepted : 2017-06-17 Published : 2018-04-21

Keywords: Learning engagement, Meaning of education, achievement motivation, Goal achievement,

Abstract :

This study aim to examine the relationships between achievement motivation, learning engagement and Goal achievement with meaning of education in Bojnourd high schools in academic year 2015-2016. The study population was comprised of 2579 students of Bojnourd high schools, which by using Morgan sampling table and simple random sampling, 335 people were selected as samples. The data collected in this study consisted of four questionnaires achievement motivation (AMT), the learning engagement Questionnaire (MSLQ by Pintrich and De Groot, 1990), Goal achievement (Middleton & Midgley, 1997) meaning of education (MOE) questionnaire (Henderson-King & Smith, 2006).Formal Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed using the Supervisor and the number of the population comments. Moreover, by using Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient for achievement motivation questionnaire (0.80), learning engagement questionnaire (0.79), Goal achievement questionnaire (0.79) meaning of education questionnaire (0.79) was calculated. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics . The results showed that there is a significant relationship between achievement motivations, learning engagement and Goal achievement with meaning of education and achievement motivation has the highest correlation (0/47) and variable advance the goals of the lowest correlation (0/37) with the meaning of education. The results of multivariate linear regression analysis showed that predictive variables explain the meaning of education changes as well (0/32).

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