Achievement Motivation of Secondary School Students
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31305/rrjss.2025.v05.n02.001Keywords:
Secondary school, Achievement motivation, Gender and Area of schoolAbstract
Achievement motivation is an inner drive that pushes to an individual and foster to success and improve the quality of excellence. The present study focused on achievement motivation of secondary school students in reference to gender and area of school. The sample of the study has been taken by using multistage sampling technique. Total 160 students, in which 80 rural school students (40 boys and 40 girls) and 80 urban school students (40 boys and 40 girls) selected for the study sample. Achievement Motive Test (ACMT) prepared by V. P. Bhargava (1994) used to assess the study variables and obtained data was analyzed through descriptive statistics such as mean, SD and t test. The result indicates that there is no significance difference found between gender and area of school on achievement motivation of secondary school students.
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