Assessment of Lecturers’ Perceptions of Postgraduate Students’ Academic Motivation and Emotions in South-West, Nigeria

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The study assessed lecturers’ perceptions of postgraduate students’ academic motivation and emotions in South-west, Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was used, targeting lecturers in Federal Universities across the region, with 100 purposively selected respondents from five universities. Data were collected using a 4-point Likert scale questionnaire, with Cronbach Alpha reliability of 0.83. Frequency, percentages, and multivariate analysis of variance were applied. Results indicated average perceived academic motivation and stable emotions toward academic activities, with no significant gender-based difference, leading to recommendations to support motivation and stabilize students’ emotions.

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Anatolian Journal of Education e-ISSN: 2547-9652 October 2020 ● Vol.5, No.2 [www.e-aje.net](www.e-aje.net)[ ](www.e-aje.net)pp. 51-58 Assessment of Lecturers’Perceptions of Postgraduate Students’ Academic Motivation and Emotions in South-West, Nigeria Mayowa Olurotimi Ogunjimi PhD. Department of Adult and Primary Education, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, [ogunjimimayowa@gmail.com](ogunjimimayowa@gmail.com) Banjo Moshood Lawal Department of Social Sciences Education, Faculty of Education, University ofIlorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, [lawalbanjo@yahoo.com](lawalbanjo@yahoo.com) This study assessed lecturers’ perceptions of postgraduate students’ academic motivation and emotions in South-west, Nigeria. The researchers employed descriptive survey research design for the study. The population of the study comprised all university lecturers in South-west, Nigeria while the target population consisted of all lecturers taking postgraduate studies in Federal Universities across South-west, Nigeria. The study sample consisted of 100 respondents purposively selected from five Federal Universities (University of Lagos, University of Ibadan, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Federal University of Technology, Akure and Obafemi Awolowo University) in South-west. Lecturers’ Perception of Postgraduate Students Academic Motivation and Emotions Questionnaire of 4-point Likert type, developed by the researchers with Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient value of 0.83 was used for data collection. The data collected were analysed using frequency, percentages and multivariate analysis of variance. The findings showed that the perceived academic motivation of postgraduate students was average and emotion towards academic activities was stable. Also, the study showed a non-significant difference in male and female lecturers’ perception of postgraduate students’ academic motivation and emotion. It was, therefore, recommended that academic activities at the postgraduate level should be such that will raise the motivation level and stabilize the emotion of the students. Keywords: assessment,perception, motivation, emotion, postgraduate studies. INTRODUCTION Stakeholders in Nigerian education system are concerned about students’ achievements and academic standard; being that success in education is highly instrumental to the technological, socio-economic and political development of a nation. For overall national development, academic achievement of students, who are leaders of tomorrow, must be harnessed. Harnessing students’ academic achievement will entail identification and treatment of factors capable of manning or making good academic achievement. Such factors capable of predicting students’ academic achievement include academic motivation and emotions (Muola, 2010) . Academic motivation, as one of the factors affecting academic achievement, is the enthusiastic spirit behind student’s inspiration to learn and excel in academic related activities. It is the degree to which individuals are energized for attainment of academic rewards, such as good grades, praise from fellow Citation: Ogunjimi, M.O. & Lawal, B.M. (2020) . Assessment of Lecturers’ Perceptions of Postgraduate Students’Academic Motivation and Emotions in South-West, Nigeria. Anatolian Journal of Education, 5(2), 51-58. [https://doi.org/10.29333/aje.2020.524a](https://doi.org/10.29333/aje.2020.524a) 52 Assessment of Lecturers’ Perceptions of Postgraduate Stu … students and teachers, and feelings of personal mastery in academic engagements (Muola, 2010) . Academic motivation is an intrinsic motive to achieve just for the sake of achieving rather than achievement in the service of some other motives. Need for achievement is one of the psychological motives that play an important role in success and achievements of a man of which teachers are not exception (Gesinde, 2000) . Academic motivation, therefore, gives strength and dir

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What was the purpose of the study?

The study assessed lecturers’ perceptions of postgraduate students’ academic motivation and emotions in South-west, Nigeria.

How was data collected and how reliable was the instrument?

Data were collected with a 4-point Likert-type questionnaire developed by the researchers, showing Cronbach Alpha reliability of 0.83.

What were the key findings about motivation and emotions?

Perceived academic motivation of postgraduate students was average, and emotions toward academic activities were stable.

Were there differences in lecturers’ perceptions by gender?

The study found a non-significant difference between male and female lecturers’ perceptions of postgraduate students’ academic motivation and emotion.

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