Construction and Validation of Achievement Motivation for High School Students

S. Veeranathan; Dr. (Mrs). N. Amutha Sree

Volume : III, Issue : XI, November - 2014

Construction and Validation of Achievement Motivation for High School Students

S. Veeranathan, Dr. Mrs . N. Amutha Sree

Abstract :

The aim of the present study is to measure the Achievement motivation in high school students. For that the investigator constructed an achievement motivation inventory. That inventory consists of 45 items with 3 responses. The Achievement motivation inventory has been developed to provide a simple and objective measure of Achievement motivation of high school students. In that process the pilot study tool was given to a sample of 100 high school students and thus the collected data were subjected to analysis. Finally 35 items were retained. The tool is also subjected to reliability measure. Norms were also established.