Factors Affecting Achievement Motivation for the Students' Graduation in Master of Education Program in Educational Administration

Abstract

The purposes of this research were (1) to find out the selected factors of the achievement motivation for the students' graduation in master education program, educational administration, (2) to study factors affecting the achievement motivation for the students' graduation in the master education program, educational administration; and (3) to construct the regression equation for the achievement motivation prediction for the students' graduation in the master education program, educational administration. 72 students in the educational administrative program were selected as the samples by random sampling method. The employed research instrument was the rating-scale questionnaire. The data was analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson's product - moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The research findings were as follows: (1) the overall rating means of all factors were rated at a high level; (2) the overall of the achievement motivation for the students' graduation in the master education program, educational administration was at a high level; and (3) the only two factors significantly affecting the achievement motivation for the students' graduation were the learner (X1) and the learning environment (X2). Both factors together could explain the variance of the achievement motivation for the students' graduation by 75.6%.