Exploring Student Motivation and Science Academic Performance in the Philippine Context: A Literature Review

Abstract

The growth in interest towards the study of science education has highlighted an area of concern regarding student motivation, as it plays a major role in determining their levels of engagement, persistence, and ultimately their performance in school. Although motivation is known to be one of the most significant factors determining how well students achieve academically; the body of literature regarding it is both vast and full of inconsistencies, confusions, and contradictions. In the Philippines alone, there have been numerous articles published regarding the relationship between motivation and science performance in education. The purpose of this paper is to summarize some of the research articles that have been written regarding student motivation and science achievement in the Philippines. The method of reviewing the articles used was a narrative literature review using a predetermined set of criteria. Based on the data obtained from the articles that matched these criteria, the report concluded that student motivation and science achievement in the Philippines are directly connected to other factors such as academic performance, self-efficacy, learning strategies, and so forth. It was concluded that there are several types of motivation such as intrinsic, extrinsic, etc. that contribute significantly to students' overall science achievement and that these types of motivation have various interactions with other variables; instructional practices, learning environment, characteristics of learners, thereby creating a complex relationship between motivation and science achievement in education in the Philippines.