Influence of Research Infrastructure, Teachers’ Motivation and Career Opportunity on Students’ Attitude towards Research

Abstract

Research skill and temper not only helps in rational decision making but also facilitates positive change in every dimension of social life and such attitude must develop from the undergraduate level. In the light of this, the present research work tried to assess the factors which stimulate students’ temper towards research. The influence of teacher’s motivation and research infrastructure on students’ attitude towards research is studied along with the mediation effect of career opportunity. Data are collected through scheduled questionnaire method from B. Com and M. Com final semester students from different colleges of western Odisha. Structural equation model is applied to study such effect. It is found that teacher’s motivation and research infrastructure have no direct effect but has mediated effect on student’s attitude. So, the policy makers should focus providing career opportunity to the students in research to ignite research attitude among them from the graduate level.