What is achievement motivation and how can it be measured?

What will be an ideal response?

Achievement motivation is more than simply wanting to do well, rather, it captures a
number of psychological variables important to the educational process, such as
confidence, achievement goals, and learning strategies. Confidence pertains to
confidence regarding task mastery, whereas achievement goals focus on why the
adolescent may want to do well on a task or not. For example, some adolescents desire
to do well so as to get good grades, whereas others work hard to master the task
material. Finally, learning strategies are based on the techniques we use to master the
material. Typically, achievement motivation is assessed via self report. Some experts,
such as Bandura, have created measures to assess a single facet of achievement
motivation (e.g., confidence), whereas other experts have crafted more comprehensive
assessments that measure all features of the construct at one time.