I'm trying to understand the relationship between this 3 factors (motivation, stress and student performance) for a developmental psychology project for my studies. I would like to determine the variations of stress and motivation in the long preparation of exams.
For this, I certainly give to a group of students, a questionnaire about how their stress is and how their motivation is, at a time1, a time 2 and a time 3.
Each of your 3 areas are huge bodies of research.
In the area of stress and performance the works of Robert Yerkes and John Dodson may be of interest to you. They view stress as a level of arousal and have postulated a curve where some stress is necessary for quality performance but too much becomes detrimental. There are many many other researchers in the area but looking up some of their work may be a nice place to start.
As for motivation, you're going to have to define further what you mean by motivation. This is a HUGE field in education research if you are just looking at cognitive factors that influence a person's engagement in a task some of the topics include: performance (approach & avoid) orientations, mastery orientations, self-efficacy, intrinsic/extrinsic motivators, etc. I recommend a basic wiki search on these and see what interests you and what aligns best to what you are thinking in your head and then go from there.
Stress is motivational. Your question has conceptual flaws. You need to think this out more clearly
After clearly operationalizing and checking for the problem of multicollinearity, looking into the predictive power of the different levels of stress & motivation on students academic performances could also be an alternative research project. As there are many resources on this area, I hope you can access them if you search!
Good Luck!
Berhanu
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