Investigating the Interaction Between Affective, Value, and Expectancy Elements in Motivation to Learn in Islamic Subject

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Learning motivation is a complicated construct that is critical to academic achievement. Understanding the elements that motivate students is critical in Islamic subject for designing efficient teaching practices and creating a suitable learning environment. The goal of this research is to investigate the interaction between three critical components of learning motivation: affective, value, and expectancy, within the context of Islamic subject. The study adopts a quantitative method by collecting primary data utilizing a survey using Google Forms among 255 Muslim students who take Islamic subjects as general compulsory course at public and private university. By examining these relationships, we want to discover the important elements influencing students' interest in Islamic subjects and provide practical recommendations for improving educational methods in this field. The results show a low positive relationship between value and affective components, no interaction between expectancy and affective components and strong positive relationship between value and expectancy components. In conclusion, students' motivation to learn Islamic subjects is based on their value, and they must improve their expectancies and affective components.