LEARNING STRATEGIES AND MOTIVATIONAL BELIEFS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AS CORRELATES OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Abstract

Teaching-learning process is always goal-oriented activity where motivation plays a vital role. So learning strategies of student and motivation for learners is must for an excellent result in the form of academics achievements. Learning is a fundamental development in behavior. newlineMotivation is a psychological process that inspires and stimulates one to work for the achievement of anticipated aim. Academic achievement means the amount of the knowledge gained by the students to work hard and learn more. Academic Achievement depends upon numerous factors which are responsible for high, average or low academic achievement of students. newlineMoreover, earlier performance i.e. academic achievement of secondary school students in qualifying test plays a vital role in selecting a future course of study is also center point of our research work. Gender, too, plays a important role in student contribution in secondary school education. Therefore, it also needs to be considered in the structure of the study. Keeping in sight the above essentials, it is planned to accept the interrelationships between cognitive and meta-cognitive learning strategies, motivational beliefs and academic achievement of secondary school students with reference to three streams of study mainly arts, science, and commerce. It is also planned to recognize the predictors of educational performance amongst learning strategies and motivational beliefs. newlineThe present study deals with learning strategies and motivational beliefs of secondary school students as correlates of academic achievement and gender. The main objective of the study was to measure the learning strategies and motivational beliefs of secondary school students pursuing different streams of study and also to study gender differences in learning strategies and motivational beliefs of secondary school students pursuing science, commerce and arts streams of study. It was also the aim of the present study to find out the relationship between learning strategies and motivational.