The relationship between institutional environment, guardian involvement, academic achievement and learning motivation of children reared in a Malaysian orphanage

• Main Authors: Alfred, A. J., Ma’rof, A. M., Buang, N.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pusat Pengkajian dan Penelitian Pendidikan Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta 2017
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/63512/1/The%20relationship%20between%20institutional%20environment%2C%20guardian%20involvement.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/63512/

This research was conducted to study the relationships between academic performance, learning motivation, institutionalised environments and guardian involvement of children reared in a Malaysian orphanage. This study involves 50 students consisting of 21 female and 29 male students. These students are in secondary school with ages ranging from 13-17 years old. This study was conducted in a home for orphans and under-privileged children and all the participants of this study are from this home. The findings of this study show that there is a significant relationship between academic performance, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and therefore learning motivation as a whole (P<0.05). Findings also show that there is strong correlation between guardian involvement and academic performance (P<0.05). However for relationships between guardian involvement and learning motivation, institutionalised environment and academic performance and institutionalised environment and guardian involvement, correlations fail to exist (P>0.05).