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Fong, Carlton J.; Krause, Jaimie M. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2014
This study investigated the sources of self-efficacy of college students enrolled in a learning frameworks course, whom we identified as underachievers. Through weekly journal entries, the group of underachievers (n = 13) cited the factors that made them feel confident or not confident. Students' responses to open-ended prompts were coded…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Self Efficacy, Underachievement, Feedback (Response)
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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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Matthews, Wendy K.; Kitsantas, Anastasia – Psychology of Music, 2013
This study examined the effects of the conductor's goal orientation (mastery vs. performance) and use of shared performance cues (basic vs. interpretive vs. expressive) on instrumentalists' self-efficacy, collective efficacy, attributions, and performance. Eighty-one college instrumentalists from two musical ensembles participated in the study. It…
Descriptors: College Students, Music, Music Activities, Musical Instruments