The effect of student motivation on learning physical education acadamical achievement in jimma zone some selected secondary schools

Abstract

The study was conducted to assess the effect of students’ motivation learning physical education on academic achievement in Jimma zone some selected secondary schools. Its Experimental method. From 4 secondary schools of GumayWoreda, only one (1) available secondary school was selected. From this selected secondary school30 students are selected from grade 9 by using simple random sampling technique and five (5) PE teachers was selected purposively. Questionnaire, interview and document analysis was used to collect the data then, quantitative data was analyzed by frequency count, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The qualitative data was analyzed by explanation methods. The result indicates that the students’ achievement in the experimental group significantly improved by integrating different motivational techniques with teaching learning process of physical education There was significant difference between the experimental and control groups at alpha level of 0.05 for a two tailed t-test, degree of freedom =110 in their academic achievement. Based on the findings of this study the researcher recommends that: Integrating motivation with learning in fostering students’ academic achievement should be extended to other secondary. Teachers should be diligent in their duties and should try to employ the different methods of motivational technique and teaching method in their teaching-learning process. Schools should give awards to students, who perform well, as this will help to motivate students. Academic awards and trophies should be displayed in school trophy case. Students should be consociations and empowered to realize that no matter what anybody does motivate them; they play the most important role of motivating themselves. Students should be made know and understand that their destiny lies in their hands. Students should be made to understand that education is first for their own benefit as they are beneficiaries of their academic pursuit before any other person. Local government education section or local government executive should organize awards for best performed schools as this will help both teachers and students to improve in their academic work. The different individuals, private and public enterprises and companies should be encouraged to take up some educational projects.