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Achievement motivation in pupils and their attitude towards school subjects. A research at German and Czech secondary schools using the autodiagnostic method as a special form of individual feedback for teachers
Moss, Katerina ; Pavelková, Isabella (advisor) ; Chvál, Martin (referee) ; Trave, Harald (referee)
The aim of this research was to evaluate the degree of achievement motivation in pupils and their attitudes towards selected subjects (namely mathematics, German, English, and physics), and thereafter to compare the results with the views of their teachers. 860 pupils from German secondary schools and 1131 from Czech secondary schools have completed questionnaires for this purpose, with a comparison and evaluation of the results between the two countries carried out. The data which has been collected via the aforesaid questionnaires has been interpreted using statistical methods. The results highlight certain gender differences with respect to pupils' achievement motivation and attitudes towards school subjects. For example, in Germany, boys tend to achieve better grades than girls in mathematics, whereas in the Czech Republic, the opposite is the case. The majority of pupils of each gender in both countries agree that mathematics is important or very important. The results also show that teachers are not always able to accurately evaluate the achievement motivation or the attitudes of pupils towards the subject which they teach. In particular, the results show that teachers of mathematics are frequently unaware of the degree to which the fear of failure motivates their pupils. Furthermore, in...
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