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Relations Between Student Achievement Motive and Perception of Work Efficiency of Teachers
Relations Between Student Achievement Motive and Perception of Work Efficiency of Teachers

Author(s): Ljiljana Krneta
Subject(s): School education, Educational Psychology
Published by: Visoka škola strukovnih studija za vaspitače "Mihailo Palov"
Keywords: achievement motivation; perception of work efficiency of teachers

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the relations between the achievement motive of students and teacher perceptions of work efficiency (PREN). The problem of research consists of students achievement motivation as a source of differences in the perception of teachers working efficiency .The study was conducted on a sample of 1150 students in primary and secondary schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 58.56 % of which were female and 48.43% male subjects, aged 14-19 years . We used the test of achievement motivation (taken from earlier research, Krneta, Lj, 2000). Achievement motive test was used in order to measure general student motivation for achievement. The perception of teachers working efficiency was researched with the Scale of perception of teachers working efficiency, constructed for the purposes of this study. It is a frequency Likert-type scale consisting of 16 items. The obtained results indicate that there are significant differences in the perception of working efficiency between students with low motive and students with high achievement motive.

  • Issue Year: 4/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 50-57
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English
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