Motivational Beliefs of University Students

Abstract

The beliefs of motivation play an active role in student learning, so it helps increase the attention of students and their mingle into the educational activities, and control of the factors affecting the completion of the learning task, and that they have a more important role in raising the performance and achievement level of students in various fields of study and activities that they face, Moreover, it is a way more confident and stable for predicting academic behavior of students, thus research is targeted: First, measure the beliefs of motivation among university students. Secondly, you know the differences in the beliefs of motivation among university students according to the variables of gender and specialization. To achieve the two goals, and put the researcher measure the beliefs of motivation, and includes (36) paragraph describing the beliefs of motivation among university students, divided into (3) components, namely: self-efficacy, and the value of work, and the concern of the test, has been applied to a sample scale of (412)from the Al-Qadisiyah University students, and the community, and the rate of (193) male and 219 female students (12) scientific and humane college and public school in the (2013-2014), and after processing the data statistically using the test (Ttest) for one sample, and analysis of variance, and the difference path (LSD) test and Pearson correlation coefficient, and the researcher has reached a number of conclusions:1. Measuring Motivational Beliefs of Al-Qadisiyah University students. 2. Statistically significant difference in the beliefs of motivation among university students according to the variables of gender and specialization, and based on those results provide the researcher with a number of recommendations and suggestions.