The Relationship Between Self-Regulation, Motivation And Performance At Secondary School Students

Contemporary society, through its challenges, exerts a powerful pressure on its members. Thus, today, more than ever, the student is directly responsible and accountable for its performance, adjusting to the rapidly changing school environment. The competence of self-regulated learning is a key element in trying to be successful students. The present paper comes to find an answer to which aspects of motivation and self-regulation of learning are involved in obtaining the academic performance for the secondary school students in Romania. This study includes 270 secondary school students, aged between 12 and 14 years. Research methods used in this investigation are two surveys based on questionnaires and study of documents. The instruments used were the Academic Self-Regulation Questionnaire and Motivational Strategies for Learning Questionnaire. It was concluded that the competence of self-regulated learning has a strong impact on the level of attainment achieved by students, enhancing the relationship between motivation and performance.