Relationships Among Students’ School Motivation, School Commitment, and Academic Achievement in Secondary Education

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Abstract

The overall objective was to identify whether the effects of secondary school students' school motivation and their commitment to the school in general were additive in explaining students' academic achievement, in addition to students' score on an intelligence, and to examine whether school commitment mediated the relation between motivation and achievement. A sample of 5,793 secondary school students was used. The results of the multilevel multiple regression analyses showed that both school motivation and school commitment had additive effects on students' academic achievement, and that school commitment partly mediated the motivation-achievement relation. We did not find support for the idea that high levels of motivation and commitment could compensate for low levels of intelligence.

Author

• Hanke Korpershoek, University of Groningen