Title: Do motivation, self-regulation, and interest predict student performance in physics? A case study in one of Indonesian rural high school

Authors: Muhammad Ikhlas; Kuswanto Kuswanto; Siti Hartina

Addresses: College of Education, Central Luzon State University, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, Philippines ' College of Education, Central Luzon State University, Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, Philippines ' SMAN 14 Sarolangun, Sarolangun Regency, Jambi Province, Indonesia

Abstract: This study finds out the relationship between students' motivation, self-regulation, and interest in learning physics with performance. The descriptive-survey method with case study approach has been used for this study. The students' adaptive learning engagement in science (SALES) questionnaire and the individual interest questionnaire (IIQ) were used to collect the data, while statistics descriptive, independent sample t-test, Pearson correlation, and linear hierarchical regression were used for analysis the data. The novelty of this study was focused on a school that is quite far from the district centre and included in newly established school. Results showed motivation, self-regulation, and interest were categorised as moderate, while grade has significant influence on students' motivation, self-regulation, and interest. Pearson correlation revealed that motivation and self-regulation have positive relationship with performance, while linear hierarchical regression indicated that motivation becomes as good predictor for students' performance. Implications of this study can be input for related parties, consisting of description of how physics learning is done in schools that are quite far from the district centre or rural area, which is seen from the point of view of motivation, self-regulation, and interest.

Keywords: motivation in learning physics; self-regulation in learning physics; interest in learning physics; Indonesian students' physics performance; linear hierarchical regression.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTCS.2021.119657

International Journal of Teaching and Case Studies, 2021 Vol.12 No.4, pp.332 - 354

Received: 21 Oct 2020
Accepted: 19 Sep 2021
Published online: 13 Dec 2021 *

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