Date of Publication

6-1977

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science in Guidance and Counseling

Subject Categories

Educational Psychology

College

Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education

Department/Unit

Counseling and Educational Psychology

Thesis Adviser

Rose Marie C. Salazar

Defense Panel Chair

Emilia Del Callar

Defense Panel Member

Belen Hernandez
Leticia Postrado

Abstract/Summary

Since motivation plays such an important role not only in impelling action for learning but also eventually in determining the kind and the amount of learning that takes place, it is important for educators to be able to assess the strength of that variable in their educands. At present there are no definite and simple tools that assess the motivation of adolescents to achieve in school.

This study was an attempt to develop further such a device: an objective-projective measure of achievement motivation that can quickly and easily identify between highly and poorly motivated students.

It investigates whether a modified form of the instrument developed by Abraham Mattakottil (1976) is capable of measuring motivation to achieve in school, among adolescents from various cultures.

Out of the 630 students, coming from 24 schools in 6 Asian countries, a modified form of the objective-projective device constructed by Abraham Mattakottil (1976) and a Teacher Rating Scale of School-Motivated Behaviors, also developed by the same author, were used.

Then, an item analysis was done to assess the characteristics of the instrument. From the total sample of 630, the upper 27% and the lower 27% were separated and formed into two groups consisting of 170 subjects each. Each item was then analyzed and its difficulty level, discrimination power and quality of options determined.

Employed also was the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient to determine the correlation with the criterion measure and the correlation coefficients between scores on each category of responses and the total test scores, for the whole sample and for each country. The test of significance of r was then done, by computing the value of t, and eventually, scores of the subjects from the different countries were grouped and compared, by means of t-tests, to determine whether there were significant differences across cultures.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TG00525

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

73 leaves, 28 cm. ; Typescript

Keywords

Motivation in education; Motivation (Psychology)

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