Building Motivation and Achievement in Urban Students: Insights From a Supportive Academy

Key Points

• The study aims to understand what motivates urban students in an accelerated honors high school to learn.
• Qualitative design using grounded theory
• Participants included 44 students in grades 9-12
• Data collected through open-ended responses to a motivational question
• Family was identified as the primary motivator for students
• Intrinsic motivation increased from grades 9-10 to 11-12
• Higher levels of intrinsic motivation observed among female students
• Intrinsic motivation positively correlated with GPA

Abstract