Abstract:
The aim of this study is to show the reader why the selected topic is important and how it could influence or help future tertiary students as well as the relevant administrators, supervisors and lecturers. Social environments can either encourage and facilitate the tendencies for development and integration that the human psyche equips with. Or social environments can disrupt such developments, which leads an individual to display more unwanted behaviours (Deci & Ryan, 2004). The main argument of the research study is that current 2nd year tertiary students feel more pressure to achieve academic success compared to 1st year tertiary students. The specific problem that the researcher aimed to solve is how academic motivation differs from 1st year students and 2nd year students. It analyses how 2nd year students are more concerned about their futures whereas 1st year students are just aiming to achieve academic success. The data collection method used for this study was an online application known as Google Forms. The reason the researcher selected this method is that it is an easier form to collect responses and it provides graphs, statistics and pie charts to analyse the responses.
