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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Performance approach goals"”.
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The Nature and the Consequences of Achievement Goals During Early Adolescence
… the nature and the consequence of achievement goals. Achievement goals, classroom involvement and uninvolvement, and end of semester GPA of 588 early adolescents were assessed both fall and spring before and after middle school transition. The results indicated that all three goals declined …
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Achievement goals affect academic success and help seeking behavior of undergraduates
… of this study is to determine how achievement goals affect students' academic success and help seeking behavior. The three goal orientations measured in this present study are mastery, performance-approach, and work avoidance. A questionnaire is used to assess the students' goal orientation. …
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Achievement goals, motivational self-regulation and academic adjustment among elite Chinese high school students
… (MSR) strategies (i.e., mastery self-talk, performance/extrinsic self-talk, performance/relative ability self-talk, interest enhancement, relevance enhancement, efficacy enhancement) in the relationships between achievement goals and cognitive and behavioral engagement (i.e., involved …
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The Interactive Effects of Achievement Goals and Task Complexity on Effort, Mental Focus and Enjoyment
… effects of each of the three achievement goals and task complexity on task enjoyment, mental focus and exerted effort, were derived and tested. The results indicated that the positive effects of mastery goals on the motivational variables are stronger for more complex tasks, the positive …
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A Model Of Nontraditional College Student Motivation And Success
… theory (Eccles et al., 1983) and achievement goals theory (Dweck, 1986; Maehr, 1989; Nicholls, 1984). A Model of Nontraditional College Student Motivation and Success was tested using a sample of undergraduate students enrolled in various majors at a High Research Activity University. The …
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The effects of gender, year in school, plans to play professionally, and identity on student athletes' adoption of goal orientations in academics
… and athletic domains. In both areas, learning goals are widely regarded as most beneficial while performance-avoidance goals are viewed as detrimental to achievement and motivation. Performance-approach goals offer both positive and negative effects. Identity theory posits that an individual’s …
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Teachers' Fixed-Ability Practices: Measurement, Antecedents, and Implications for Students' Motivational Beliefs and Achievement
… little promotion of risk-taking led to more performance- approach goals. In addition, there were several notable trends. At the classroom and teacher level, students’ shared perceptions of FAPs led to an increase in performance-approach goals. Thematic analysis of teacher interviews showed …
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Self-oriented perfectionism, achievement goals and procrastination
… the purposes was to examine whether achievement goals are factors that contribute to the inconsistent relationship between self-oriented perfectionism and passive procrastination that was found in previous research; the other purpose was to obtain a better picture of active procrastination by …
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Relationships between motivation to use social network sites, relational interdependent self-construal, achievement goals, social goals, and academic performance among Malaysian adolescents
… interdependent self-construal (RISC), social goals, achievement goals and academic performance in a Malaysian context. Motivation to learn in school is vital in energising and directing students’ learning behaviour, which is closely related to academic achievement. Besides, students’ social, …
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Motivation, cultural values, learning processes, and learning in Chinese students
… utility of the achievement goal and Student Approaches to Learning (SAL) frameworks for characterizing Chinese students’ motivation and achievement, and (b) to investigate how Confucian-heritage culture (CHC) may combine with achievement goals or SAL to generate different learning processes …