NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 3 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Alla Hemi; Nir Madjar; Yisrael Rich – Journal of Experimental Education, 2024
Achievement goals are associated with varied students' outcomes, such as academic achievement and well-being. Exploring factors shaping adolescents' achievement goals, such as perceptions of significant others' goals, may benefit efforts to advance positive student outcomes. Prior research focuses on perceived teacher goals and considerably less…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Goal Orientation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
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
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kaplan, Avi; Lichtinger, Einat; Gorodetsky, Malka – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
This study tested the hypothesis that self-regulation of writing is a multifaceted modular construct and that students would perceive different goal orientations for writing as involving the application of different writing strategies. Two hundred eleven Jewish Israeli high school students engaged in a writing assignment and then reported on their…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Jews, Writing Strategies, Writing Achievement