The motivation of school learning and the teenagers’ value horizon

Abstract

The objective of research is represented by the elaboration of an hierarchy of the motives of school learning and of the variables which mediate this hierarchy. The analysis of results showed that the differences found in the hierarchy of the learning motives are due to the differences of gender, age, school performances and to teenagers'system of values. As a conclusion, there is a biunivocal relation between the motives of learning and the variables age, gender, school performance and the system of values of the pupils teenagers.