A Study on the Effects of the Desire to Learn on the School Records -A Case of the Upper Secondary School Students-

Abstract

The author intended to investigate how the desire to learn had brought to effect on the school records in relation to the intelligence by means of calulating the correlation coefficient. The subjects employed were 43 boys and 46 girls in the second-year upper secondary school students. The findings are as follows: (1) There exisists no significant correlationships between the levels of the intelligence and those of the desire to learn. (2) The correlation coefficients between the intelligence and the school records are 0.216~0.337 (mean 0.294), and the correlation coefficients between the desire to learn and the school records are also 0.084~0.364 (mean 0.244). Therefore we find that the desire to learn as well as the intelligence is also an important factor to determine the school records. (3) From a sexual point of view, it appears that the correlation between the intelligence and the school records is stronger in boys, on the other hand the correlation between the desire to learn and the school records is stronger in girls. The effects of the desire to learn on the school records is, that is, stronger in girls than in boys. (4) Moreover in view of the correlation between the desire to learn and the school records according to the levels of the intelligence, the correlation in the high or low intelligent boys is strong, and the correlation in the middle intelligent boys is weak. But the correlation in higher intelligent girls is stronger. (5) If the low intelligent students have the high desire to learn, they can make better records than the high intelligent and low desired students. But the records can not exceed the standard score 50. And it appears that there is no difference by the intelligence in the school records of the low desired students.