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This current study aimed at identifying the factors of academic motivation in students of three universities in Algeria environment. furthermore. It aimed to identify the steps of using the method of exploratory factor analysis to explore few latent factors from lot of observed variables in order to achieve the aims of the study we translated the scale of academic motivation of Vallerand et al. (1989) in to Arabic language. We applied the scale on a reconnaissance sample of (141) students, where she focused on identifying on characteristics of the scale. We applied the study tool on a sample of (1051) students. We used the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) by Principal Axis Factoring. The results related to factorial analysis indicated to find seven factor. (Published Abstract)