The Profile of Mathematics Academic Motivation Among High School Students During COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the level of academic motivation in mathematics during COVID-19 period. Academic motivation is an encouragement that comes from both internal and external factors around student to achieve learning goal. Cross-sectional descriptive quantitative methods used in this study. Academic motivation measured using Academic Motivation Scale (AMS) by Vallerand et al. which adapted in mathematical context in this current study. 252 high school students from Greater Jakarta participated in this study. 21 high school students that did not match the criteria for participants. So that only 231 sample included in the final analysis stage. The results shows high score of intrinsic motivation to know and introjected regulation, while moderate level of academic motivations observed in five other dimensions. Research implication and suggestion for future research discussed in this paper.