Measuring Relationship Between Students' Satisfaction and Motivation in Secondary Schools of Pakistan

Abstract

In this study an analysis of determinants of students' motivation of matriculation level is conducted. The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of activities/services of schools on the motivation of students. Six determinants of motivation of students were identified and their impact was measured. Secondary and higher secondary schools were chosen as a sample of the study and two studies were carried out. Study-1 was carried out in Sargodha district for pilot study with a sample of 416 students of 14 schools. A comprehensive study-2 was carried out in both Sargodha and Rawalpindi districts with a new sample size of 1185 respondents of 40 schools, both public and private, equally. The variables used as determinants of motivation of students included the teacher's performance, quality of education, discipline, infrastructure, facilities and extracurricular activities. A confirmatory factor analysis was run in AMOS for Study-1 to check model fitness, validity and reliability. In Study-2, multiple regression analysis was applied to determine the strength of relationship between the activities of schools and motivation of students, relationship of academic and non-academic satisfaction with motivation and relationship of overall satisfaction with self-motivation.