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Senko, Corwin; Hama, Hidetoshi; Belmonte, Kimberly – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
Two classroom studies tested whether mastery-approach goals and performance-approach goals nudge students to pursue different learning agendas. Each showed that mastery-approach goals promote an interest-based studying approach in which students allocate study time disproportionately to personally interesting material over duller material. Study 2…
Descriptors: Identification (Psychology), Test Construction, Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning
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Tuominen-Soini, Heta; Salmela-Aro, Katariina; Niemivirta, Markku – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The aim of this study was to examine students' (N = 579) achievement goal orientation profiles, the temporal stability of these profiles across the transition to upper secondary education, and profile differences in academic well-being (i.e., school value, school burnout, schoolwork engagement, satisfaction with educational choice). By means of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Burnout, School Choice, Academic Achievement