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Direct linkZheng Luo; Yixue Yang; Jiacan Sun; Wenjing Yuan; Siyuan Liu; Ling Wang – Educational Psychology, 2024
This study identified maths motivation profiles in a sample of 878 Chinese secondary school students, and examined the effects of perceived parent/teacher achievement goals on maths motivation profiles and the effects of the latter on academic outcomes. Latent profile analysis conducting on three achievement goals (mastery-approach,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Student Motivation
Gonzalez-DeHass, Alyssa R.; Willems, Patricia P.; Vásquez-Colina, María D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2021
Case studies have become a popular vehicle for pre-service teachers to be introduced to the challenges of classroom teaching and participate in hypothetical classroom decision-making. Because of the similarity of case study instruction to those classroom structures proven to influence a student's adoption of mastery-approach goals, we expected…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Psychology, Achievement Need
Download full textNausheen, Munaza; Richardson, Paul William; Alvi, Effat – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2019
While most of the research on gender and subject level differences has been conducted with same group of students studying different subjects, these differences have been comparatively less examined at college/ university level among postgraduate students enrolled in different study domains. This paper presents the results of the multivariate…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Intellectual Disciplines, Graduate Students, Beliefs
Shannon, David; Salisbury-Glennon, Jill; Shores, Melanie – Journal of Research in Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the learning strategies used by ethnically diverse learners and to investigate the relationships among the constructs of classroom goal structure, achievement goal orientation, motivation and self-regulated learning in an ethnically diverse population of fourth and fifth grade learners (n = 396). Goal…
Descriptors: Correlation, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Metacognition
O'Malley, Patricia Tenowich; Sonnenschein, Susan – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this study was to integrate domain-learning theory and goal theory to investigate the learning processes, achievement goals, social goals, and achievement of 141 college students. Cluster-analytic procedures were used to categorize participants at different levels of expertise based on their responses on knowledge, interest, and…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, College Students, Grade Point Average, Goal Orientation
Bembenutty, Hefer; Karabenick, Stuart A. – 1998
This study examined the relationship between college students' preference for an immediately available option (e.g., go to a favorite concert the day before a test) or a delayed alternative (e.g., stay at home to study for the test). Analysis focused on how much a student would like to engage in a specific activity, the importance of the activity…
Descriptors: College Students, Delay of Gratification, Goal Orientation, Higher Education
Bembenutty, Hefer; Karabenick, Stuart A.; McKeachie, Wilbert J.; Lin, Yi-Guang – 1998
This study examined the relationship between academic delay of gratification (ADOG) and college students' use of action control. College students (n=113) at a large midwestern university completed the academic delay of gratification scale developed by the authors and the motivated strategies for learning questionnaire, which included an adaptation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Delay of Gratification, Goal Orientation
