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Guo, Meng; Leung, Frederick K. S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
This study compared the relationships between the goal orientations, learning strategies, and mathematics achievement of Chinese Miao and Han students. A total of 211 Han and 321 Miao fifth- and sixth-grade students from Qiandongnan participated in the study. The results suggest that, in both samples, mastery orientation positively predicted the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Correlation, Goal Orientation
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Goagoses, Naska; Itenge, Helvi; Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike; Koglin, Ute – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2020
Achievement goal orientations and self-regulated learning have become central constructs in education research, with both contributing significantly towards students' academic success. However, very little research has focused on students' social achievement goals, that is their social reasons for wanting to do well in school. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning, Self Management, Elementary School Students
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Vedder-Weiss, Dana; Fortus, David – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
Achievement goal theory distinguishes between mastery goals (the goals of developing competence) and performance goals (the goals of demonstrating competence) [Ames [1992] "Journal of Educational Psychology" 84: 261-271]. In this study, we employed this theory aiming to better understand why adolescents' motivation to learn science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement, Goal Orientation, Theories