M. Ed. (Educational Psychology) / The last few decades have brought a significant increase in the amount of research on the subject of motivation, notably in the field of psychology. In connection with education too, motivation in general and more specifically learning and achievement motivation are of the greatest importance. One reason for this is the fact that there are indications that the problems of under-achievement, early school leaving and the disquieting loss of manpower which is the result, may be ascribed to inadequate learning and achievement motivation. This study forms part of the project "Learning Motivation", an inter-disciplinary project undertaken with the aid of the HSRC and involving various researchers. It attemps to come to grips with the phenomenon of achievement motivation from a pedagogical point of view, and is aimed in particular at designing reliable and valid tests for the assessment of achievement motivation, and at establishing how tendencies in achievement motivation manifest themselves at the secondary school level because in this phase particularly gnostic demands are made on the pupil and achievement motivation therefore plays a vital role. Various theories on motivation and achievement motivation were studied, as well as a number of existing tests. In accordance with the results of these studies, a semi-projective test, the "Leistungsmotiv Gitter" (LM-GITTER),which was designed in West Germany and is used in the assessment of general achievement motivation in the senior primary phase, was adapted in an attempt to assess scholastic achievement motivation among pupils in std. 6, 8 and 10. A second test, the Achievement Motivation Questionnaire, was also designed. It consists mainly of 41 items related to achievement, all of which are concerned with the characteristics of the achievement motivated person, as described...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uj/uj:4325 |
| Date | 13 March 2014 |
| Creators | Viljoen, Cornelia Fransina |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | University of Johannesburg |
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