Manuscript Number : GISRRJ192117

Differential Effect of Schooling on Achievement Motivation of Students

Authors(1) :-Dr. Shuchi Sinha

The article deals with a comparative study of achievement motivation of Govt. and private school students. A sample of 400 students of 9th and 10th classes of Nawada (Bihar) town was selected for the purpose of the study. Mukherjee (1965) Sentence completion test was used to find out the achievement motivation of students. It was hypothesized that private school students would show higher achievement motivation than that of Govt. school students. The result confirmed the hypothesis.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. Shuchi Sinha
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Mirza Galib College, Gaya, Bihar. India

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 2 | Issue 1 | January-February 2019
Date of Publication : 2019-03-25
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 105-108
Manuscript Number : GISRRJ192117
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2582-0095

Cite This Article :

Dr. Shuchi Sinha, "Differential Effect of Schooling on Achievement Motivation of Students", Gyanshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (GISRRJ), ISSN : 2582-0095, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp.105-108, January-February.2019
URL : https://gisrrj.com/GISRRJ192117

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