ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR

ABSTRACT

Motivation is the motivating force behind someone's behaviour and actions in life. Different desires or rewards empower different types of people, so trying to identify someone's motivators can certainly assist individuals to employ them for bene?t. The core objective of the present study was to investigate relationship among the academic and achievement motivation with respect to gender. Data was gathered from 240 secondary school students various secondary schools in Jammu and Kashmir UT. An equal number of boys and Girls are selected by a simple random method. For Achievement Motivation, Mukherjee's Achievement Test was used for data collection, and for Academic Achievement was measured through the marks obtained in a previous class by the students. The ?nding of the study shows there is positive correction between the academic motivation and achievements motivation. In addition, the study also reveals the males shows signi?cant positive relationship as compare to their counterpart.