The Relationship Between Teacher Motivation And Students Academic Achievement

Abstract

The study aims to explore the impact of teacher’s motivation on student academic achievement at elementary level. Motivation is one of the factors to improve student’s achievement in teaching and learning process. The objectives of the study were to identify the views of students and to find pout the perception of teachers regarding teachers' motivation; and to find out the impact of teacher's motivation at elementary level. The nature of the study is descriptive in which quantitative method was used to describe the data. The study was limited to elementary level. The 80 students and 80 teachers of the MS Education School were the population of the study. A simple random sampling technique used to select the sample for the study. The sample size study was comprised of 43 students and 23 teachers from MS Education School. Pilot testing was done before finalization of the instruments. The validity of instruments was ensured by an expert’s opinion. The reliability of instruments was calculated by Cronbach’s alpha formula. The value of Cronbach’s alpha for the questionnaire of students was 0.907. The researcher personally visited sampled colleges to collect data. After data collection, descriptive analysis (frequency percentage distribution) was applied to the data. It is concluded that the impact of teacher's motivation on student academic achievement. It is recommended that teachers may evaluate student’s achievement at the end of lessons and motivate students to perform during the class.