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Motivation as an Instrument for Enhancing Student Interest in the Study of Economics

Motivation as an Instrument for Enhancing Student Interest in the Study of Economics

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ABSTRACT

Motivation is the drive within the individual as well as the external drive that leads to the achievement or accomplishment of a goal, the drive to achieve a goal or to set a goal such as needs, wants and desires and internal forces achievable. The main aim of the study is to investigate how motivation will be used as an instrument for boasting students’ interest in the study of Economics in Classical International School in Warri-South Local Government Area in Delta State. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out to identify the ways through which students in secondary schools could be motivated to boast their interest in the study of Economics in Warri-South Local Government Area of Delta State, examine the effect of inadequate motivation on the interest of the student in the study of Economics in Warri-South Local Government Area of Delta State, determine the factors which hinder the motivation of students in the study of Economics in Warri-South Local Government Area in Delta State, and investigate the ways of improving the motivation of students and teachers for effective input and output in the educational system in Warri-South Local Government Area of Delta State. The research design used in this report is descriptive design, utilizing questionnaire method to obtain information from the respondents for this project. Primary data were collected from the primary source which questionnaire was used as an instrument of data collection while secondary data were sources from textbooks, journals, newspapers and the internet were employed. The data were presented on a frequency distribution table and analyzed using simple percentage, while hypothesis was tested using chi-square test. This study will be significantly useful to the staff in secondary schools, the ministry of education and to the society it will help to encourage the administrators of our school system to view the concept of motivating the students as one of the top priorities that should be considered seriously.


Motivation as an Instrument for Enhancing Student Interest in the Study of Economics

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 Introduction

Motivation can take many form of regular payment to teacher’s salaries, wages, allowance and many other entitlements when due. It can be in form of good working environment. This has to do with providing enough classroom with all facilities like electricity, air-conditions, good seats, enough classroom with normal number of students for proper control of teachers, and many other needs, equipment that will make it comfortable and conducive for students (Ukeje, 1920).

As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Limitations of the Study and Definition of technical terms.


1.2 Background of Study

Motivation is the drive within the individual as well as the external drive that leads to the achievement or accomplishment of a goal, the drive to achieve a goal or to set a goal such as needs, wants and desires and internal forces achievable. A child for his own sake may not want to learn because there is no apparent immediate benefit to be derived from learning. In other words, he cannot see why he has to learn (negative attitude) for a child to develop the attitude and willingness to learn, there must be sort of motivation.

Motivation is an important factor in learning and an umbrella term that covers types of those things that help the individual to learn. It is therefore important that educators should try and understand its nature and way of operation. Motivation is the problem facing the standard of education in the society and has been noted that among the factors that determine the success of learning in academics is the level of of performance and commitment of the students and this depends on the rate of amount of interest one have for the subject.

The teaching profession previously was accorded with respect, honor and dignity. This enviable profession was a sort of motivation to many teachers. Also not only afford life career and permanent membership but also renders services to the public. It has code of ethics; the code of ethics for teachers is contained in the handbooks of the Nigeria union of teachers. They were revealed and give pride of place in the study. But recently, the government and all its organs neglect teachers and the educational sector, while motivation can be brought about by adequate remuneration, fringe benefits and recognition. They can also be made to occupy high social status in the society.

Economics is a social science that studies a particular aspect of social or human behaviour. The word ‘economics’ originated from the Greek words ‘eikos’ and ‘nemo’ which literarily mean, ‘a house to manager respectively. Consequently, economics ordinarily means management of a household or simply a household management. This definition is useful only in as much as it reminds us of the essential nature of the study of the subject (Akande and Azike 2002).

Due to the pervasive nature of the subject (Economics) many definition have been given as there are many economists. Right from the classical to the neo-classical and modern periods many economists have come up with varying definition of the subject.

Also teachers on the other hand, can also be motivated by making them to feel satisfied with their job by ensuring regular payment of salaries because they need to be inducing, as he has to induce the spirit of motivation in the student. Above all, gaining interest in what is to be learned by students is known to be a major aspect of a teacher’s job. Children according to Farrant (1980) “ are like horses which you can lead to the water but cannot force to drink” and Farrant explained that motivation is all important for getting children to learn, once their attention is captured the battle is half won.

Therefore, teacher efficacy is a powerful input variable related to student achievement. There are varieties of specific actions which teachers can take to increase motivation in class room, by trying to encourage the development of need achievement, self confidence and self direction in students who need these qualities. Trying to make learning interesting by emphasizing activity investigation, adventure, social interaction and usefulness, directing learning experience towards feeling of success in an effort to encourage an orientation towards achievement of a positive efficacy and this can be achieved by making use of objectives that are challenging but attainable and when appropriate that involved student impact and to use behavioural techniques to help student exert themselves and work towards remote goals.

Consequently, teachers and schools authorities have little or no plan for motivation of students in their school system and then it becomes a problem and a gap is created in the educational process. It is as a result of the importance of motivation as an instrument for boasting student’s interest that this study was carried out with special reference to Classical International School in Warri-South Local Government Area in Delta State.


1.3 Statement of the Problem

There is no doubt that if a student is motivated in one way or the other by the teacher, the student will participate actively and have interest in his studies. That is why they are taken care of and are provided with all the necessary things that will be of good interest to the learner.

However, there is lack of interest among secondary school students in the study of Economics as a result of this, there is poor performance among secondary school students because there is inadequate motivation. For instance, in early ages, students are chased to schools with cane and are forced to be in class till the school dismiss but recently, the revise is the case. Research has found that if a student is flogged and dragged to school they hardly can understand or be comported in the class, hence the need for motivation. Right from homes motivation from parents helps students to come to school daily and on time. Likewise in the school if teachers motivate them to learn, they can do well.

In some classes today, teachers have not time to encourage their students to learn and this affects them in their academic work. It is in view of this problem that the researcher tends to find out how motivation can be used as an instrument for enhancing student’s interest in the study of Economics in Classical International School in Warri-South Local Government Area in Delta State.


1.4 Aim and Objectives of Study

The main aim of the study is to investigate how motivation will be used as an instrument for boasting students’ interest in the study of Economics in Classical International School in Warri-South Local Government Area in Delta State. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out as follows:

  1. To identify the ways through which students in secondary schools could be motivated to boast their interest in the study of Economics in Warri-South Local Government Area of Delta State,
  2. To examine the effect of inadequate motivation on the interest of the student in the study of Economics in Warri-South Local Government Area of Delta State,
  3. To determine the factors which hinder the motivation of students in the study of Economics in Warri-South Local Government Area in Delta State,
  4. To investigate the ways of improving the motivation of students and teachers for effective input and output in the educational system in Warri-South Local Government Area of Delta State.

1.5 Research Questions

The study came up with research questions so as to be able to ascertain the above stated objectives. The specific research questions for the study are stated below as follows:

  • To what extent could the student be motivated so as to boast their interest in the study of Economics in Warri-South Local Government Area of Delta State?
  • To what extent can inadequate motivation impede the interest of student in the study of Economics in Warri-South Local Government Area of Delta State?
  • What are the major Factors that hinders motivation of students in Warri-South Local Government Area of Delta State?
  • What strategies could be appropriate in enhancing the process of motivation of students and teachers for effective input in the educational system in Warri-South Local Government Area of Delta State?

1.6 Research Hypothesis

In order to pursue the objective of this study, the following generalized statements have been designed to guide and aids in obtaining the result for the experiment to be conducted. For this work, the null hypothesis will be represented with H0 while the alternative hypothesis will be represented with hypothesis H1.

H0: There is no significant relationship between motivation and academic students' interest in economics.

H1: There is no significant relationship between motivation and academic students' interest in economics.


1.7 Significance of Study

This study is aimed at finding out the importance of motivation as an instrument for boasting students’ interest in the study of economics in some selected secondary schools in Warri-South Local Government Area.

This study will be significantly useful to the staff in secondary schools, the ministry of education and to the society it will help to encourage the administrators of our school system to view the concept of motivating the students as one of the top priorities that should be considered seriously.

Also this study will be significant because the researcher hopes that findings and the subsequent recommendation will serve as a nice contribution towards the academic development of the Theories of Students’ Motivation and above all, serve as a spring board to fellow student researchers especially those who may wish to research further on the subject matter in future.


1.8 Scope of the Study

The scope of this study covers the importance of motivation as an instrument for boasting students’ interest in the study of Economics in some selected schools in Warri-South local government area in Delta State.


1.9 Limitations of the Study

During the course of this study, many things militated against its completion, some of which are:

  1. Time Constraint: The time frame given to accomplish this project was very short due to school academic calendar and it was carried out under pressure which made the researcher not to implement some necessary features.
  2. Establishment Policies: Establishment policies posed a serious limitation as most staffs are not ready to release information needed for this project work. There were lots of information needed from the staffs of this establishment to enhance the study which took them time to release or they did not release at all for security purposes, hence the scope was reduced.
  3. Research material: availability of research material is a major setback to the scope of the study.
  4. Frequent power failure: This made the researcher append more money on fuel to ensure sustainable power.
  5. Financial Constraint: Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet, questionnaire and interview).

CHAPTER TWO

2.0 Literature Review

2.1 Introduction

This chapter focuses on the review of related literature. A literature review includes the current knowledge as well as theoretical and methodological contributions to a particular topic. It documents the state of the art with respect to the topic you are writing. It surveys the literature in the topic selected. In this research work the literature review includes the …

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