Comparative Study between Study Tracks: Math and Sciences or Humanities, Regarding Academic Motivation and Learning Strategies in the 9th Grade Students

Abstract

Indispensable efforts are based on motivation and interest of students, without them, we cannot reach higher on the knowledge scale. A higher motivation or an intentional learning does not improve itself reproductive performance, but only when it is associated with a more laborious processing of the material learned. Facing with school tasks, as the transition from one class to another, students go through a process of awareness of their own possibilities and preferences.In this paper we started from the assumption that there are significant differences, in terms of learning strategies and academic motivation among ninth graders at study tracks: math and sciences or humanities.