Factors affecting students’ academic performance mediated by their motivation for learning / Md. Roknuzzaman Siddiky and Israt Eshita Haque

The study was intended to identify the factors that affect students’ academic performance mediated by their motivation for learning. The study employed a cross-sectional survey where primary data were collected from a total of 206 samples randomly drawn from 5505 undergraduate students of a public university in Bangladesh. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze data. The study confirmed that there is a very strong positive association between students’ academic performance and their motivation for learning (γ = .942; p< 0.01). The study claimed that the factors involving students’ gender, interests on academic majors, academic results in previous semesters, physical and mental health, participation in class, participation in co-curricular activities, family economic condition, family support, parental guidance, necessity for getting job, necessity for making money, necessity for economic self-sufficiency, necessity for helping family financially, departmental learning facilities, teachers’ quality, student-teacher relationship, and institutional learning environment positively affect students’ academic performance mediated by their motivation for learning. These associations are statistically significant ranging from at 90% to 99% confidence levels. The study suggested that students, their families and educational institutions should play important roles in strengthening students’ motivation for learning that would lead to their better academic performance.