Achievement Motivation of Under-graduate Students in Terms of their Meta-cognitive Abilities, Type of Colleges and Streams of Study

Mr. Jan Jahanger, Mr. Gh Nabi Dar and Mr. Mudasir Sadiq

Abstract

Achievement motivation refers to the level of one’s motivation to engage in achievement behaviors, based on the interaction of parameters as need for achievement, expectancy of success and the incentive value of success. While as metacognition is the ability to reflect upon, understand and control one's learning. The present research is conducted on under-graduate students of district Baramulla of the state of J&K in order to study the achievement motivation of under-graduate students in terms of their meta-cognitive abilities, type of colleges and stream of study. For the purpose a sample of 120 under-graduate students was collected from the under-graduate colleges of district Baramulla affiliated with university of Kashmir by using probability sampling techniques which comprises of (30 as high meta-cognitive ability group, 72 as average meta-cognitive ability group and 18 as low meta-cognitive ability group), type of colleges as ( 76 from govt. colleges & 44 from private colleges) and stream of study as (47 from science stream, 49 from humanities stream & 24 from professional stream). The tools used for data collection were Achievement Motivation Scale developed by Muthee J.M and Immanuel Thomas (2009) and Metacognitive Awareness Inventory developed by Schraw and Dennison (1994). Data was analyzed with the help of Two-Way ANOVA of unequal cell size. Findings of the study revealed that achievement motivation of under-graduate students of district Baramulla was found to be independent of their meta-cognitive abilities, type of colleges and stream of study and also independent by their interaction.
Keywords: Achievement Motivation, Meta-cognitive Abilities, Stream of Study, Type of Colleges & Under-graduate Students.