Comparison of Educational Achievement Motivation among High school Sport Elite, Sport, and non-Sport Students of Tehran

The present study was carried out with the aim of comparing educational achievement motivation among high school sport elite, sport, and non-sport students of Tehran. The method of this study is causal comparative-post-event in which data collection has been performed in a field manner. The population of this study includes high school students of Tehran’s Amouzesh-Va-Parvaresh (Education) among which 380 individuals were selected based on Morgan’s table among which researchers obtained 320 correct questionnaires. The instrumentation of this studyof this research includes adopted the Motivation Testing Questionnaire. For analyzing data, ANOVA test, statistical tests of T, and Tukey test have been used. Results showed that the difference of educational achievement motivation among sport elite, sport, and non-sport male students is not significant, but that there is a significant difference among sport elite, sport, and non-sport female students in terms of educational achievement motivation. Moreover, there is no significant difference between individual and group sports of male students in terms of educational achievement motivation, but there is a significant difference between individual and group sports of female students in terms of educational achievement motivation.