The influence of student's intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, ability, and Yamaha learning method on achievement at Yamaha Music School in Bandung

Abstract

Even though students have high interest in music, not many of them continue learning until the final stage. Students stop learning before they reach the final stage due to lack of absorptive capacity. Students stop learning at different level which is determined by their absorptive capacity. In this study, absorptive capacity is classified into 3 variables: intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and ability. When students are learning well until reaching a certain grade they can increase the reputation of Yamaha Music School. Students can also collaborate with Yamaha music school by becoming a professional musician, teacher, or composer. Departing from all the explanation above, this research investigate the influence of student’s intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, ability, and learning method on achievement at Yamaha Music School. The intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and ability are a measurement from students side while learning method which contains factor of teacher, standarization and curriculum is a measurement from Yamaha Music School side. The sources of data are gathered from 140 respondents who filled the questionnaire correctly. The data are processed using regression analysis. The result of this research determines the achievement of Yamaha Music School and their students. Intrinsic motivation, ability, and learning method have positive influence on the achievement. Extrinsic motivation, it has negative influence on the achievement. As for the control variable such as age, commute time, and length of the course have no influence on achievement.