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Research Study – Published: June 2, 2019
A Study on Achievement Motivation of Higher Secondary School Student
Vel Murugan, P.
ABSTRACT
The main objective of this study is to find out the significant difference between male and female higher
secondary school students in their achievement motivation. Achievement Motivation Scale developed by
Prathiba Deo and Asha Mohan (2011) was used to collect the relevant data_ The sample consists of I 03 higher
secondary school students of whom 53 are male and 50 are female_ The data are analysed by 't' test, 'F'
test and Chi-square test. The result indicates that there was significant difference between male and
female higher secondary school students in their achievement motivation.
Keywords: Achievement Motivation, Higher Secondary Students, Academic Performance, Educational
Psychology
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction
in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Vel Murugan, P. (2019). A study on achievement motivation of higher secondary
school students. Indian Educational Researcher, 12(1), 11–19.
Received: March 28, 2019;
Revision Received: April 12, 2019;
Accepted: June 2, 2019.
Responding Author: Vel Murugan, P. @ velmurugam@gmail.com
Article Overview: ISSN: 0974-2123 |
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Published in Volume 12, Issue 1, January – June, 2019
