An exploratory comparative study in achievement motivation between Malay and Australian secondary school students.

The study was conducted to investigate the achievement motivation of Muslim Malay secondary school students compared with that of Catholic Australian secondary students. Two methods of measuring achievement motivation, the Mehrabian Achievement Scale (MAS) and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) w...

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Main Author: Wan Rafaei Abdul Rahman
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Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 1972
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4014/
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spelling ukm-40142012-04-03T03:16:14Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4014/ An exploratory comparative study in achievement motivation between Malay and Australian secondary school students. Wan Rafaei Abdul Rahman, The study was conducted to investigate the achievement motivation of Muslim Malay secondary school students compared with that of Catholic Australian secondary students. Two methods of measuring achievement motivation, the Mehrabian Achievement Scale (MAS) and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) were administered to the Malay subject (from English Medium (EM) and Malay Medium (MM) schools) and the Australian subject (AS). The results indicated that there was a significant difference in achievement motivation between the Malay and Australian subjects. However, the direction of the difference on one scale was the reverse in the case of the other. The differences in the results obtained and the efficacy of the two scale were discussed. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 1972 Article PeerReviewed Wan Rafaei Abdul Rahman, (1972) An exploratory comparative study in achievement motivation between Malay and Australian secondary school students. AKADEMIKA, 1 . pp. 105-110. ISSN 0126-5008 http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/penerbit/jdem1-7.html
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description The study was conducted to investigate the achievement motivation of Muslim Malay secondary school students compared with that of Catholic Australian secondary students. Two methods of measuring achievement motivation, the Mehrabian Achievement Scale (MAS) and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) were administered to the Malay subject (from English Medium (EM) and Malay Medium (MM) schools) and the Australian subject (AS). The results indicated that there was a significant difference in achievement motivation between the Malay and Australian subjects. However, the direction of the difference on one scale was the reverse in the case of the other. The differences in the results obtained and the efficacy of the two scale were discussed.
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author Wan Rafaei Abdul Rahman,
spellingShingle Wan Rafaei Abdul Rahman,
An exploratory comparative study in achievement motivation between Malay and Australian secondary school students.
author_facet Wan Rafaei Abdul Rahman,
author_sort Wan Rafaei Abdul Rahman,
title An exploratory comparative study in achievement motivation between Malay and Australian secondary school students.
title_short An exploratory comparative study in achievement motivation between Malay and Australian secondary school students.
title_full An exploratory comparative study in achievement motivation between Malay and Australian secondary school students.
title_fullStr An exploratory comparative study in achievement motivation between Malay and Australian secondary school students.
title_full_unstemmed An exploratory comparative study in achievement motivation between Malay and Australian secondary school students.
title_sort exploratory comparative study in achievement motivation between malay and australian secondary school students.
publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 1972
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4014/
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