The Impact of Teacher's Participatory Behavior on Motivation and Academic Achievement of Elementary School Students

Document Type : research paper

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1 Ph.D. in curriculum development, graduated from Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran

2 M.A. in primary education, Islamic Azad University of Karaj, Karaj, Iran

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This research was conducted with the aim of studying the effect of teachers' participatory behavior on the motivation and academic achievement of elementary students in District 3 of Karaj. This study is an applied research and in terms of performance, it uses a quasi-experimental method with experimental and control groups without any pre-test. The statistical population of the research consists of the 6th grade elementary students of the 3rd district of Karaj in the academic year of 2017-2018 (N = 8574). The statistical sample consisted of 2 groups (N = 30 for each group), which were selected based on convenience sampling method and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The instrument of this study was Hartler's Standard Higher Education Inventory (1981). Moreover, the students' academic reports were used as indicator of their academic achievement. In order to assess the content validity of the questionnaire, the expert judgement method was used and the reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by Cronbach's alpha (α = 0.85). To analyze the data, independent samples T-test was used. The results showed that teachers' participatory behavior significantly affects the internal and external motivation and academic achievement of elementary students in District 3 of Karaj.

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