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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"achievement goals"”.
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Self-oriented perfectionism, achievement goals and procrastination
… One of 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 …
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Achievement goals affect academic success and help seeking behavior of undergraduates
<p>The purpose 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 …
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The Nature and the Consequences of Achievement Goals During Early Adolescence
… is to examine 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 …
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Motivation and creativity: The relationship between achievement goals and creativity in writing
… the relationship between motivational goals and the creativity of short stories and poems. Creativity of the stories and poems was measured using a consensual technique based on independent assessments of a group of expert judges. The first study, with 121 undergraduates as subjects, …
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Achievement goals, motivational self-regulation and academic adjustment among elite Chinese high school students
… enhancement) in the relationships between achievement goals and cognitive and behavioral engagement (i.e., involved engagement, withdrawal in the face of difficulties, avoidance of challenges, rehearsal and elaboration) among 1096 Chinese gifted high school students (43% male). Structural …
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The Interactive Effects of Achievement Goals and Task Complexity on Effort, Mental Focus and Enjoyment
… research introduced the three-dimensional achievement goal framework as a plausible and less problematic alternative to the three-dimensional goal orientation framework. Hypotheses regarding the interactive effects of each of the three achievement goals and task complexity on task …
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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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The prison of online performance: social achievement goals as a buffer between social media and digital stress
… how individual differences in social achievement goal orientations—development (DEV) and demonstration (DEM)—moderate the relationship between social media use (SMU) and approval anxiety, a key form of digital stress. Grounded in Social Achievement Goal Theory and the Digital Stress …
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Learning in Medical School: Relationships Among Achievement Goals and Approaches to Learning in Three Classes of Medical Students
… learning behaviors were examined in terms of achievement goals and approaches to learning. First, second, and third year medical students completed a Questionnaire composed of three extant inventories, the Achievement Goals Questionnaire (AGQ), the Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (MAI), and …
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An Investigation of Achievement Goals and Time Perspective in Community College Students Engaged in a First-Year Experience Course
… the relationship between time perspective and achievement goals among 144 community college students engaged in a first-year experience course. A correlational study was conducted to examine the relationship between four different achievement goals as measured by scores on the Achievement Goals …
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Achievement goals and student motivation in the middle school years: Teachers' use of motivational strategies with high and low performance students
… of student motivation supports the idea that the goals which students adopt in achievement situations influence motivation for learning. Students whose goal is task mastery have more adaptive motivational outcomes than those whose goal is to demonstrate ability. Teachers, by means of the …
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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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Examining the Relationships between Aspects of Academic Motivation, Stereotype Threat, and Attributions for Perceived Performance in a Middle School English Course
… to portray race and gender gaps in academic achievement (Steele, 1992; Vanneman, Hamilton, Anderson, & Rahman, 2009). Stereotype threat theory proposes that the gaps may be in part affected by perceptions that minority students have concerning societal structures as well as their own …
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Can goal specific self-efficacy measures predict goal choice: understanding the 2x2 achievement goal framework through self-efficacy theory
<p>The achievement goals that one adopts in an academic context have been shown to be associated with, as well as causally related to, important outcomes. Currently, the most widely accepted theory holds that achievement goals are the result of one's implicit </p> <p>theory of intelligence. …
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Motivation, cultural values, learning processes, and learning in Chinese students
… (a) to examine the predictive 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 …
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Student empowerment in a primary school classroom : a descriptive study
… and enable them to realise their social goals. Such an outcome should positively affect students' achievement motivation. However, there is little understanding and research on the construct of student empowerment particularly in the primary school context from the teacher and student …
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