Volume : 2, Issue : 6, June - 2013

Academic Achievement of Class Xi Students in Mathematics in Relation to their Achievement Motivation

Diwakar Singh

Abstract :

Mathematics is fundamental to national prosperity in providing tools for understanding Science, Engineering, technology and economics. Mathematics therefore is taught and constitutes important part of school curriculum till secondary stage. Previous M.P. Board class tenth board exam result has showed that the maximum percentage of students either belong to lower percentage or failure. Subject like Mathematics need more motivation to learn and understand the complexity of problem. The researcher studied the relationship of academic achievement in mathematics of class XI students in relation to achievement motivation. Researcher collected the information from randomly selected 75 students each from govt. and private schools, total 150. On analyzing the data positive and significant correlation was found between achievement in Mathematics and achievement motivation.