Achievement Motivation of Adolescents with Hearing Impairment (In Terms of Gender)

The aim of this research is to describe achievement motivation of adolescents with hearing impairment in terms of gender. One of disability which has potential to be further developed is adolescent with hearing impairment. Even they generally have difficulty to receive maximum learning process in everyday life, it is not possible for them to achieve success in the future life as long as they have motivation to achieve. The research used achievement motivation theory from McClelland (1987) which refers to the selection of task difficulty level, persistance, feedback, reward and innovativeness. Sampling technique in this research is cluster random sampling, with 161 adolescents as subject range from 11-21 years old. Data analysis method used is descriptive analysis. The result of the data analysis showed that both female or male adolescents with hearing impairment in Special-Needs School in City of Medan have their achievement motivation in medium category with a percentage of 72.3% for female and 69.2% for male.