Learning Motivation as Predictor of Student Engagement in Private Junior High Schools Students

Dewi Mustamiah, Nurul S. Widanti

2018

Abstract

Student engagement is an intensity of behavior, emotional quality and personal effort of active involvement of students in learning activities. When students engage in learning, they will participate and engage in academic and social activities and will have regulatory compliance and involvement in learning activities. Such students will possibly get good learning achievement. Motivating students to learn in school is a topic of great concern of educators today and motivating students that they can succeed in school is one of the greatest challenges of this century. Various studies have shown the linkage between student engagement and learning motivation. The aim of this research is to determine the effect of of achievement motivation toward student engagement mainly in coastal area of Surabaya. The sample of this study consisted of 226 students of total population of 540 students from 3 private Junior High Schools in Bulak subdistrict Surabaya. This research uses quantitative approach with regression design to determine the extent to which student engagement could be predicted through achievement motivation. Instruments used to measure learning motivation and student engagement that developed by researchers in this research based on several theories. Findings indicated that learning motivation could affect student engagement, so that in this research learning motivation could be predictor of student engagement. The results also obtained that subjects in this research had moderate level of student engagement., and also had learning motivation in the moderate category

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mustamiah D. and Widanti N. (2018). Learning Motivation as Predictor of Student Engagement in Private Junior High Schools Students.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS, ISBN 978-989-758-435-0, pages 486-493. DOI: 10.5220/0008591204860493

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icp-hesos18,
author={Dewi Mustamiah and Nurul S. Widanti},
title={Learning Motivation as Predictor of Student Engagement in Private Junior High Schools Students},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,},
year={2018},
pages={486-493},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008591204860493},
isbn={978-989-758-435-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,
TI - Learning Motivation as Predictor of Student Engagement in Private Junior High Schools Students
SN - 978-989-758-435-0
AU - Mustamiah D.
AU - Widanti N.
PY - 2018
SP - 486
EP - 493
DO - 10.5220/0008591204860493