Sakaryadaki ortaokullarda okuyan öğrencilerin motivasyon kaynakları ve akademik motivasyon düzeyleri (Serdivan, Türkiye)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the sources of motivation and academic motivation levels that have high impacts on students' learning environment in Serdivan middle schools. In this study, 11 middle schools were chosen. 8 were Government and 3 were private schools. Simple random sampling of 722 middle school students (n=722) were selected in the study. 50.3% (n=363) of the students were female and 49.7% (n=359) were male. This is the quantitative research study. A survey of the sources of motivation and academic motivation levels was conducted and collected using questionnaire. The responses were computed and analyzed using SPSS package version 20. Among the statistical attributes that were used in analyzing the data were ANOVA based on significance levels of 5% with Tukey post hoc test for multiple comparison, bivariate correlation, descriptive statistics, and t-test statistical analysis. The analysis of data displayed that scores of academic motivation in terms of intrinsic motivation is high compared to extrinsic and amotivation factors in all surveyed middle schools. In school resources, the results show that language lab, gym, theatre hall, conference room, music hall and swimming pool were the most common physical resource challenges in Serdivan public middle schools. While in teachers as resource, assistant staff and teachers' missing in certain subjects like English, Mathematics, Arabic and Religious culture were the top challenges in Serdivan middle school. Moreover, parents were always supporting their children in many school activities. Occasionally, parents reward their children when succeed and help them with homework solving. Moreover, parents rarely use punishment when their children failed to succeed. It was concluded that, the academic motivation levels, family support, school resources and classroom environment have high positive impacts to the students' educational success. Keywords: Academic Motivation, Resources, Middle School, Student.