¹Facultatea de Fizică, Universitatea“Al. I. Cuza”Iasi,700506 Iaşi, România, ² Şcoala cu clasele I-VIII, Brodina, Suceava

Student motivation represents an essential condition for scholar success. The specialist classified motivation in intrinsic and extrinsic. The intrinsic motivation leads to intensive and persistent studying activities improving the quality of learning [1]. Intrinsic motivation has it source in the instructional activities and is satisfied during it determining the students to become involved in action for his self satisfaction and pleasure without external constraint factors. Instructional activities motivated by intrinsic motivation are explained by their appeal of novelty, challenge and passion for the subject. The extrinsic motivation has it source in external factors as incentives (grades or prizes, and advantages). The involvement within the activity is perceived as tool in attaining the goal. The learning activity is performed as response to a conditioned task without pleasure, satisfaction and with voluntary efforts. If Extrinsic Motivations become the primary incentives that motivate students to perform their work, the children will develop poor habits and miss out on the self-satisfaction that comes from hard work. If extrinsic motivation changes in intrinsic one the student could become interested in the subject. In order to identify the type of low secondary school students motivation was designed and administrated a questionnaire. To calibrate to questions 450 students pertaining to the same school were asked to fill the survey. The survey contains open and closed questions. The students’ answers are correlated with their performances. The identification of the real motifs of learning supply teachers approaches in order to ensure students’ performances improvement. [1] Deci, E.L., and Ryan, R.M. (1985). Intrinsic motivation and self-determination in human behavior. New York: Plenum Press. [2] Sansone, C. and Harackiewicz, J.M. (2000) (Eds.), Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: The search for optimal motivation and performance San Diego: Academic Press.