مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - THE EFFECTS OF STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC MOTIVATIONAND STUDENTS’ LEARNING STRATEGIES ON STUDENTS’SUCCESS

Abstract :

The main purpose of study is to determine the effects of students’ academic motivation and students’learning strategies on students’ success. The study is performed as a descriptive study. The sample of thestudy includes 204 students in the Education Faculty of MAKU. In order to find answers to the problemsidentified in the research, “Learning Strategies Scale” and “Academic Motivation Scale” is used as adata gathering item. In statistical data analysis descriptive statistics, single factor variance analysis(ANOVA) and t-test were used. The results obtained from data analysis are as follows: There issignificant difference between learning strategies and students’ gender, significant difference betweenlearning strategies and students’ according to their departments and no significant difference betweenlearning strategies and academic success. However, there is no significant difference between levels ofstudents’ academic motivation and students’ gender and between levels of students’ academic motivationand students’ academic success. There is significant difference between students’ academic motivationand according to students’ departments.