Construction of Achievement Motivation Inventory (AMI)

Abstract

The term ‘Achievement Motivation’ can be defined as the need for success or the attainment of excellence. Individuals satisfy their needs through different means and they are driven to success for varying reasons both from internal and external stimuli. Motivation is the fundamental drive for all of our actions. It is a process that maintains and controls certain behaviors of people. Achievement motivation plays a crucial role in learning. The degree of one’s tendency to achieve is referred to as resultant of achievement motivation. To find out the degree of achievement motivation the researchers tried to construct a tool for the same. By which achievement motivation can be measured of Post Graduate of students and so one. By measuring achievement motivation, we can initiate every possible and effective decisions to make our teaching-learning process fruitful.