EFFECT OF TEACHERS’ BEHAVIOR ON STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AT SECONDARY LEVEL

Abstract

The effect of the teachers’ behavior is investigated on the students’ motivation and their achievement. The Positivist paradigm has been used for this study. There were 450 secondary students from 12 secondary schools for boys and 6 secondary schools for girls at Kot Radha Kishan who participated in the study. The sample for this study has been selected with the help of Cluster sampling. The “Teachers’ Behavior Assessment Scale” was adapted from (Shah, 2009) and used by the researcher for measuring the teachers’ behavior. This was a five point Likert’s rating scale with 38 items having 0.84 Cronbach’s Alpha which shows its high reliability. Similarly, “Students’ Motivation Scale” has been used by the researcher to measure the students’ motivation. This was also a five point Likert’s rating scale with 40 items bearing 0.78 Cronbach’s Alpha value which is accepted. On the other hand, the students’ annual scores in BISE exams have been used for the purpose to measure their achievement in academics. The data have been analyzed while utilizing the Mean, Standard Deviation has been used along with the Skewness and Kurtosis whereas the Linear regression analysis was also used for the purpose of the analysis. Based on the results, it has been revealed and concluded that the teachers’ behavior has a positive moderate effect on the secondary students’ motivation and academic achievement. On the basis of the results, it has been recommended that the teachers should adopt the facilitative behavior with students regarding their learning. Furthermore, the teachers’ training institutes should conduct such seminars to aware the teachers with the effect of their behavior on the students’ motivation and their academic achievement.