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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Achievement Goal Orientation"”.
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“We’re all far more burnt out than we realize”: An exploratory analysis of academic achievement and the effects of Covid-19 burnout and achievement goal orientation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Participation in Post-Secondary Honors Programs: Predictors and Effects
… research institution, and 2) the influence of achievement goal orientation on high-achieving community college students’ decision to participate in a post-secondary honors program. While correlational studies have been conducted to compare differences in academic achievement between …
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The effects of topic choice in project-based instruction on undergraduate physical science students' interest, ownership, and motivation
… for nonscience majors' on students' motivational orientation. It also suggested and tested a model explaining motivational outcomes of project-based learning environment through increased student ownership of science projects. A project, How Things Work, was designed and implemented in this study. …
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The Role of Goal Orientation in Reactions to Normative and Improvement Based Performance Feedback
Achievement goal orientation has been found to be a useful and important construct for academic and organizational contexts. The present study expands upon the research literature by investigating the relationship between an individual's achievement goal orientation and that individual's reactions …
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Linking goals to outcomes: Exploring students' achievement goals, strategy use, and standards of success for learning
<p>This study explored stability in achievement goals and learning behaviors within a two-part learning project. Based on previous literature exploring stability in achievement goal orientation, it was hypothesized that students' goals and self-efficacy would show evidence of change within and …
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Narcissus Goes to College: A Consideration of Dispositional Narcissism as a Variable for Student Learning in Higher Education
… narcissism as a dispositional construct and achievement goal orientation. Through the development of a theoretical Triarchic Model of Dispositional Narcissism and the empirical exploration of its viability, this dissertation is written in accordance with sentiments that suggest educational …
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The role of personal and contextual variables in college students' academic achievement
… in the SRL model was proposed, as was the Achievement Goal Questionnaire (AGQ; Elliot & McGregor, 2001), a measure of the 2x2 Framework of achievement goal orientation. These variables were assessed along with those included in the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ; …
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Construct Validity Evidence Based on Internal Structure: Exploring and Comparing the Use of Rasch Measurement Modeling and Factor Analysis with a Measure of Student Motivation
… scales measuring middle and secondary students' achievement goal orientation and academic self-efficacy. 1054 complete responses were received to 18 items measuring mastery, performance-approach, performance-avoidance, and self-efficacy. Items in each subscale were first analyzed by each method …
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Sex Differences in Math Performance Among Early Adolescents: The Role of Children's Approaches to School
… grades. Children's approaches to school (i.e., achievement goal orientation and disruptive classroom behavior) and their learning strategies were assessed when participants were in fifth and then 2 years later when they were in seventh grade (N = 518); math grades and achievement test scores …
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The deconstruction of ambition: Campus climate, stereotype threat, and the motivational goals of African American students at a selective small liberal arts college
… is to investigate more deeply the motivational orientations of African American college students and to examine the impact of negative campus racial climate on the academic experiences of African American students. A further goal, however, is to explore the integration of motivation with the …
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Unintended Negative Consequences of Selection: A Longitudinal Study of Assessment Use in An Undergraduate Honours System
… on students, this thesis investigated achievement motivation, academic emotions and conceptions of assessment of first-year students at an honours Chinese university. The honours programme enrols the top 10% of freshmen as the honours group. An operational assessment system of selecting …
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Teachers' Fixed-Ability Practices: Measurement, Antecedents, and Implications for Students' Motivational Beliefs and Achievement
… development of students’ mindsets and associated achievement-related motivational beliefs. This study set out to first develop a conceptualisation of, and a teacher and student questionnaire for, the assessment of fixed- ability practices (FAPs) – teaching practices that are based on the notion …
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Exploring motivational profiles among high school students: a social-cognitive perspective
… players in shaping academic self-regulation and achievement, which decline significantly as students matriculate secondary-educational contexts. This study uses an advanced latent-profile mixture model analysis to explore and identify the motivational belief profiles of 273 high school students, …