Achievement Motivation and Academic Achievement of the Secondary Level Students in Uttar Dinajpur District

Achievement Motivation is an important ability that determines what a person can do and a motivation determines what a person will do. Thus motivation plays an important role in improving the level of performance. Here in this paper, it aimed to explore the actual relation between Achievement Motivation and Academic Achievement of the Secondary level students in Uttar Dinajpur District. The investigators adopted Deo-Mohan Achievement Motivation Scale (2011) to examine the Achievement Motivation and collected the final result of previous year of the secondary level student for Academic Achievement. The investigators analysed the collected data with Pearson’s correlation method to explore the correlations. The present study found the non-significant relationship between Achievement Motivation and Academic Achievement of the students of Uttar Dinajpur District. A positive correlation (r = .06) between Achievement Motivation and Academic Achievement was found among the total samples specially among the girls (r = 0.147), urban (r = 0.032) and rural (r = 0.077) students and a negative but negligible correlation (r = -.042) was found among the boy students.