مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - The Relationship between Reading Motivations and Academic Motivations of 5 and 6th Grade Students (Case of Kars Province)

Abstract :

The aim is to determine reading motivation levels of high school 5 and 6th grade students and the correlation of this level with their academic motivations and examine this correlation in terms of various variables. The population of the study consisted of 198 students receiving education at high school 5 and 6th grades in the school year of 2015-2016. The data were collected by using “Reading Motivation Scale for Texts” developed by İleri (Aydemir) and Öztürk (2013) and “Academic Motivation Scale for Learning Biology” developed by Aydın, Yerdelen, Yalmancı, and Göksu (2014). Since “Academic Motivation Scale for Learning Biology” was used for Turkish lesson, a pilot study had been conducted concerning this scale with a group similar to the sample. The data were confırmed by the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and the actual implementation was started. According to the results, the students had reading motivations and academic motivations at positive level.