INVESTIGATING STUDENTS’ SCIENCE LEARNING MOTIVATION ON ONLINE LEARNING DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

COVID-19 pandemic forces students, teachers and educational institutions to move from conventional learning to online learning due to its risks and limitations. Concerns of students’ motivation particularly in science subjects, thus arise from online learning. Therefore, this study aims to investigate students’ motivation during online science learning, investigate the correlation of students’ grades and their motivation, and find out about correlation between key-factor of Students’ Online Science Learning Motivation Questionnaire. This study is quantitative-descriptive. Thereby to gather the data, an online survey in the form of a Likert-scale questionnaire was employed to students 600 Junior High School students with different grades from different schools around Java island in Indonesia. The findings suggested that the key-factors influencing students’ motivation the most are their active learning skills and achievement goals. Students are relatively confident and possess high self-efficacy in online learning due to their high learning values. Meanwhile, the One-Way ANOVA test shows a significant difference between the grade of students and three out of six key factors of the questionnaire with significance values (p = .006, .039, .011) respectively. In addition, Spearman correlation test show there is a correlation between Self-Efficacy and Achievement Goal, Performance Goal and Achievement Goal, Learning Environment Stimulation and Self-Efficacy. This study may benefit in describing students’ science learning motivation through online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic to make a better learning approach and as a reference for future studies in the field of online learning.