The Non-cognitive Variables of the Students' Attitude towards Learning

The objectives of the present research have been to determine the students' attitude towards learning and school performance, to establish the relation between the following variables: age category, residentship, and the students' attitude towards learning and school performance. We will present the results obtained from a lot of 200 of subjects, students at various faculties of Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, Romania. The results we have obtained suggest a greater motivation for the students who come from rural areas, than the ones from the urban area. We must point out that the majority of the students over 40 years come from the rural area, which results in a significant correlation between attitude towards learning, age and residentship.