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Abstract enIn this research, the effect of the ARCS Motivation Model upon the students’ motivation towards mathematics was investigated. Therefore, ARCS Motivation Model was applied to 7th grade students at a middle school in Ankara at 2001-2002 terms. In research, experimental group studied ARCS Motivation Model, on the other hand the control group received traditionally designed mathematics instruction over 4 weeks. Motivation test was developed and used as a pre and post test. Independent-samples ttest was used for testing the hypothesis of the research. Post test results showed that experimental group and the control group did not differ significantly on motivation towards mathematics.

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