LİSE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN DERS ÇALIŞMAYA MOTİVE OLMA DÜZEYLERİNİN İNCELENMESİ

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the level of motivation of high school students to study. The population of the research consists of students studying in Çekerek district of Yozgat province in 2022-2022 academic year. The sample of the study consisted of 713 students studying at high schools in the district, which was obtained by using the convenience sampling method. Demographic information form (gender, class, hostel, licensed sports and exercise frequency) was used as a data collection tool in the research. In order to determine the motivation level of the participants for studying, the motivation to study for adolescents scale developed by Eryılmaz and Ercan (2014) was used. The data were transferred to the SPSS 20.0 package program for statistical analysis. Before starting the analysis, the skewness and kurtosis values were examined in order to examine whether the data showed a normal distribution and it was determined that it exhibited a normal distribution. Frequency analysis, percentage analysis, t test, Anova analysis and multiple comparison tests were used to analyze the data. As a result of the analyzes carried out; Statistically significant differences were found between the motivation levels of the participants to study according to the variables of gender, class and exercise frequency (p<0.05). It has been determined that women's study motivation is higher than men's, 10th grade students are more motivated to study than 9th grade students, those with a higher frequency of exercise are higher than those with a low frequency of exercise. No significant differences were found according to the variables of staying in a hostel and doing licensed sports (p>0.05).