Factors influencing students' motivation to study at a university

Abstract

One of the main priorities of universities today is to determine the motivating factors influencing students' attitude towards their studies and whether they successfully graduate or not. The aim of the paper is to identify selected attributes influencing student motivation and evaluate their impact on the learning process. The results were obtained through a quantitative survey (n = 293) and were evaluated using descriptive and multi-dimensional statistics. The survey identified two main factors influencing the motivation to study (quality of teaching and teacher, personal aspirations), with variable strength ranging from 0.513 to 0.836. These findings may help in targeted preparation and optimisation of study programmes that would respect the key motivations of students, and as a direction for future research, particularly aimed at student performance and teaching results comparable in the national and international academic environment.

The Motivation of Eighth Grade Students When They Learn the Parallelogram Subject in a Computerized Environment

“…Having proven its competence in promoting motivation and raising the awareness and self-reliance of the students, technology-rich teaching and learning environments have become a necessity for the modern-day student and educator, because they takes into account the individual differences between the students and enable the educator to go above and beyond what the conventional conditions of a classroom can actually offer. A technologically-enhanced environment can really promote a higher level of communication between teachers and students, which is an absolute necessity for an efficient educational process (Urbancova & Fajcikova, 2020).…”