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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"mastery goals"”.
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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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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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Peer victimization across the school years: consequences for middle school social goals
… peer victimization also may undermine children’s mastery-oriented goals for developing social skills in favor of easier (if less lastingly effective) paths to improved social standing. The current study examined the hypothesis that early (2nd grade) and growth in (2nd – 7th grade) peer …
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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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The effects of affective variables and kanji growth on L1 Chinese JSL learners' kanji learning
… identified regulation, external regulation, and mastery goals; (g) perceived autonomy led to lower amotivation and higher intrinsic motivation, but caused lower external regulation; (h) peers' positive influences positively affected all six variables, cultivating higher intrinsic motivation, …
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Flow within the engineering pipeline: Motivation of high -achieving students during the high school to college transition
… engineering.</p><p>Respondents reported higher mastery goal orientation scores than performance goals (approach and avoidance) in high school and college. They also perceived their engineering classrooms as promoting mastery goals over performance goals.</p><p>As predicted, students' perceptions …
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Achievement goals, motivational self-regulation and academic adjustment among elite Chinese high school students
… self-regulation (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 …
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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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THINKING ABOUT ONLINE SOURCES: EXPLORING STUDENTS' EPISTEMIC COGNITION IN INTERNET-BASED CHEMISTRY LEARNING
… all distinguished from, yet correlated with, mastery goals. Students' epistemic aims were specific to the chemistry topics in research. Multidimensional scaling results indicated that students' source evaluation was based on two dimensions-professional expertise and first-hand knowledge, …
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Motivational processes underlying gender gaps in school engagement and achievement
… gendered patterns of academic beliefs and goals as well as the impact of these motivational patterns on student achievement. Latent profile analyses revealed four mindset-related motivational profiles: growth mindset-high mastery goals, growth mindset-high multiple goals, fixed mindset-high …
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When School Fits Me: The Role of Regulatory Fit in Academic Engagement and Learning
… whether fit (Higgins, 2000) between students' goals or beliefs and the message conveyed by academic tasks increases engagement and learning. Given past research (Rodriguez, Romero-Canyas, Downey, Mangels & Higgins, 2011) showing that fit between beliefs about the interdependence of the self and …
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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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The Relationship of Growth Mindset and Goal-setting in a First-year College Course
… has been studied, finding improvement in mastery goal-setting (Blackwell, Trzesniewski, and Dweck, 2007), goal-focused intervention accounting for student mindset has not. Firstyear college students’ implicit theory of intelligence, or mindset, was measured before they were randomly …