A Study of Achievement Motivation Among Students at Elementary Level

Abstract

The quality of performance and the height of achievement in various walks of life including education is well known to depend upon certain factors one of which is motivation. The problem of motivation assumes special importance in context of school education. A teacher is supposed to arrange the educational institution in a way so as to encourage pupils put their heart and soul in the school activities. Hence the problem of motivation has drawn sufficient attention of researchers in the field of educational psychology. Among the various motives that operate when an individual is motivated to pursue an activity, need for achievement occupies an important place (Murray, 1938). This among those categories of needs have provided the basis for an impressive range of studies. Out of a number of researches onducted in the fieId of motivation in India a large number of them have been devoted to the study of achievement-motivation in relation to various variables.