INTERNET-USAGE, PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND GENDER AS PREDICTORS OF ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

📄 Project Abstract

The strive by parents of all classes to give their children the best of education justifies the value placed on education. But how much the children will eventually learn may depend on their level of motivation. Motivating students to achieve in school is a topic of great concern to teachers and parents, and of great theoretical importance to researchers (Tuckman, 1999). According to Tuckman, one of the greatest challenges and opportunities of the 21st century will be for schools at all levels to focus more on assisting students to become motivated in order that they can succeed in school. The study of motivation is very much the study of why behaviour occurs. This is why motivation can be defined as the desires, needs, and interests that arouse or activate an organism and direct it toward a specific goal (Crider, Goethals, Kavanaugh & Solomon, 1983). Motivation is concerned with factors that energize behaviour and give it direction. It is the basic drive or the driving force behind al...