The purpose of this research is to find the effects of 'the Academic Achievement Motivation Training Program' on the influence of the teaming attitudes, the academic achievement motivation of junior high school students.
Subject group were consisted ...
The purpose of this research is to find the effects of 'the Academic Achievement Motivation Training Program' on the influence of the teaming attitudes, the academic achievement motivation of junior high school students.
Subject group were consisted of 3th grade students of junior high school in Busan city who have the Kwon, Hyoung-Ja's academic motivation test was applied to 269 students. Out of 67 students whose result fell into under 25%, score 65 and who want to take part in the group counselling program were randomly assigned in experimental group and control group, 10 students in each group.
From this purpose the following hypotheses were set up :
First, the subjects who have been trained through the program will show a significant difference in the learning attitudes than the control group.
Second, the subjects who have been trained through the program will show a significant difference in the academic achievement motivation than the control group.
To verify these hypothesis, pre-treatment measures and post-treatment measures were given to measure the level of the learning attitudes, the academic achievement motivation and investigated the effects of the academic achievement motivation training program between the experimental group and the control group.
This program is mainly based on Kim, Young-Jin's 'academic achievement promotive program' and Kim, Nam-Ok's 'academic motivation promotive training program' and Seo, Byoung-Wan's 'Group counselling program for study habit promotion'. The content of this program covers' inspection of learning atmosphere; the reason why to learn; an obstruction and promotion with the academic achievement motivation; the learning object planing of concrete short-term, long-term; time management; concentrating one's mind, making self-confidence; and preparing for exam, etc.' The expefmental group had 15 hours' training for 6 weeks(May. 29 - July. 6), on the contrary, the control group didn't get any treatment during the periods, 4 days after completion of group counselling, post test was executed for the members of both experimental and control group respectively using same questionnaire as pre test of the learning attitudes, similar questionnaire as pre test of the academic achievement motivation. To evaluate the effects of this program, ANCOVA was applied and the results of the evaluation are as follows:
After the training, there was the significant improvement of learning attitudes and academic achievement motivation within the experimental group.
These results prove that the academic achievement motivation training program improves the learning attitudes and the academic achievement motivation of junior high school students.