The Profile of Mathematics Academic Motivation Among High School Students During COVID-19 Pandemic

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10.2991/assehr.k.210805.205How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Academic motivation, mathematics, high school students, education during pandemic COVID-19

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the level of academic motivation in mathematics during COVID-19 period. Academic motivation is an encouragement that comes from both internal and external factors around student to achieve learning goal. Cross-sectional descriptive quantitative methods used in this study. Academic motivation measured using Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) by Vallerand et al. which adapted in mathematical context in this current study. 252 high school students from Greater Jakarta participated in this study. 21 high school students that did not match the criteria for participants. So that only 231 sample included in the final analysis stage. The results shows high score of intrinsic motivation to know and introjected regulation, while moderate level of academic motivations observed in five other dimensions. Research implication and suggestion for future research discussed in this paper.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Riza Permata Diffendry
AU  - Niken Widi Astuti
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/08
TI  - The Profile of Mathematics Academic Motivation Among High School Students During COVID-19 Pandemic
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Business, Social, and Humanities (ICEBSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1310
EP  - 1315
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210805.205
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210805.205
ID  - Diffendry2021
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