Motivational Techniques and Learners 'Academic Achievement at Primary Level

Abstract

Motivation is significant to arouse students' interest towards learning process in every teaching learning situation. At primary level motivation plays important role as compared to the other levels of learning due to the fact that young learners need to be motivated towards learning as they experience the new knowledge. Present study is designed to explore the impact of teachers' motivational techniques on students' academic achievements. Here motivational techniques used by the primary school teachers were measured in relation with the academic achievement of primary school students. In this research various objectives, hypotheses and research questions were formulated. The stratified random sampling technique was used to collect data from respondent teaching at Islamabad Model colleges (Schools). Sample size was based on 100 teachers; 50 teachers were taken from five boys' schools and 50 teachers were taken from five girls schools.