Purpose
This study examined the interrelationships between a set of antecedent academic intrinsic motivations and metacognitive strategy such as goal orientation, perceived value and religiosity in Fundamental Knowledge for Matriculation courses (FKM). It also investigated the relationship between intrinsic motivation and metacognitive strategy on one hand, and students' academic performance on the other.
Methodology
A total of 471 second-year students (233 males and 238 females) were randomly selected to participate in a survey, following a stratified random sampling. Hypothesized relationships of academic intrinsic motivation, metacognitive strategy and their predictors were then tested by using Structural Equation Modeling.
Findings
Using bootstrapping (data-based resampling), the findings confirmed the proposed model which suggests that goal orientation and perceived values contributed to students' academic performance directly and indirectly via intrinsic motivation and