Academic Achievement Motivation: A Comparative Study of Government and Private Secondary School Students during Pandemic Online Classes

Abstract

The unexpected situation of uncertainty caused by COVID-19 forced the Indian education system to switch to online teaching mode to fill the gap created by the suspended formal offline mode of teaching across the country. The Covid-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the secondary level school education. The present study is focused on the impact of online teaching on the academic achievement motivation of secondary level students during Covid-19. Academic achievement motivation reflects to the need for a student’s academic achievement and his/her readiness to accomplish important and valuable tasks to achieve perfect results. The data collected through a self-constructed questionnaire of academic achievement motivation relates to online teaching and learning. The sample of 200 secondary-level students, including boys and girls of private and government schools, was chosen by purposive sampling method in the present study. The data collected was analyzed on the basis of statistical measures such as mean, standard deviation, frequency polygon, skewness, kurtosis and CR test. The study reveals that during the COVID-19 era, the academic achievement motivation of private school students was significantly higher than that of government school students at the secondary level. Further, the academic achievement of secondary-level female students was significantly higher than boy students.