Correlation Between Academic Motivation and Technical Education performance Among Secondary School Students.

The study examined the connection between secondary school students' academic performance in technical education and their level of academic motivation. In the study, a correlation survey was employed. Two hypotheses that were examined at the 0.05 alpha level served as the study's compass. Using a simple random sampling technique, 150 students were chosen as a sample from among 300 senior secondary two (SS2) technical education students in the Ethiopia East region of Delta State, Nigeria, during the 2024–2025 academic years. Data was collected using the Academic Motivation Questionnaire (AMQ), which was evaluated by three experts and has a reliability score of 0.68 according to Cronbach Alpha. The technical education exam results for the SS3 class of 2024–2025 show how well the students performed in the discipline. The Pearson product moment correlation was used to examine the collected data. The study's findings indicated a negative correlation, and most students expressed high levels of motivation. There was no discernible relationship between students' academic motivation and their technical education success. In technical education, there were also notable differences in the academic achievement of students who were highly and poorly motivated.