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Academic Goal Orientations and Student Classroom Achievement

Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1995
Abstract We examined whether college students′ goal orientations affect achievement, strategy use, and metacognition. Dweck and Leggett′s (1988) framework was used to distinguish between learning (i.e., concern for improving one′s competence) and performance (i.e., concern for proving one′s competence) orientations. Individuals were classified as
Gregory Schraw, Christy Horn, Tracy Thorndike-Christ, Roger Bruning   +3 more
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Social Predictors of Changes in Students' Achievement Goal Orientations

Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1999
Declines in students' achievement motivation across the transition to middle school may be explained by characteristics of both the academic and social environment of the new school. This study proposes that students' sense of belonging in middle school and their endorsement of social responsibility, relationship, and status goals in that setting ...
, Anderman, , Anderman
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Achievement goal orientation and stimulant misuse in college students

Journal of American College Health, 2019
Objective: The prevalence of stimulant medication misuse is rising in college students. Motivations to use stimulant medications differ from motivation to use other substances such as alcohol or cannabis. However, no previous research has examined the impact of achievement goal orientation on stimulant misuse in college students.
Kevin M, Antshel, Theresa, Parascandola, Lea E, Taylor, Stephen V, Faraone   +3 more
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2X2 ACHIEVEMENT GOAL ORIENTATIONS AND SELF-HANDICAPPING

2020
The aim of this research was to examine the relationships between achievement goal orientations and self-handicapping. The sample of study consists of 355 university students from Sakarya University, Turkey. 201 participants were female and 154 were male, the mean age was 20.2. The 2X2 Achievement Goal Orientations Scale and the Self-handicapping Scale
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Goal orientations, coping with school failure and school achievement

European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2006
The present study examined the relationship between goal orientation, coping with school failure and school achievement. Two questionnaires, Goal Orientation (Niemivirta, 1996) and The School Failure Coping Scale (Rijavec & Brdar, 1997), were administered to 1131 high school students (their age ranged from 15 to 17 years).
Lončarić, Darko, Brdar, Ingrid, Rijavec, Majda   +2 more
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Achievement goals and intrinsic motivation: Coherence, concordance, and achievement orientation

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2003
Two studies examined the effects on intrinsic motivation of pursuing lower-order target goals in an achievement context emphasizing a performance purpose goal. The purpose goal was theorized to be concordant with intrinsic needs for individuals high in achievement motivation (HAMs), but not for individuals low in achievement motivation (LAMs).
Amanda M. Durik, Judith M. Harackiewicz
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A Model for Achievement Motives, Goal Orientations, Intrinsic Interest, and Academic Achievement

Psychological Reports, 2001
This study investigated the effects of approach and avoidance achievement motives (the motive to achieve success and the motive to avoid failure) on three goal orientations (mastery, performance-approach, performance-avoidance goals) and the effects of goal orientations on intrinsic interest in learning and academic achievement for 157 tenth and 135 ...
A, Tanaka, H, Yamauchi
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Primary mathematics teachers’ goal orientations and student achievement

Instructional Science, 2012
Primary mathematics teachers’ (N = 521) personal goal orientation and instructional practices were examined based on questionnaire responses. The teachers (grades 2 and 3) were oriented towards mastery goals and mastery approaches to instruction, and reported high teaching efficacy.
Inger Throndsen, Are Turmo
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Achievement goals and achievement goal orientation in education (Editorial)

International Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Gegenfurtner, Andreas, Hagenauer, Gerda
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ACHIEVEMENT GOAL ORIENTATIONS AND MATH ATTITUDES

2020
The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships between achievement goal orientations and math attitudes. Participants were 569 university students. The 2X2 Achievement Goal Orientations Scale and Mathematics Attitudes Scale were used as measures.
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