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Goal Orientation and Academic Failure in Traditional and Nontraditional Aged College Students
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Hoyert, Mark Sudlow; O'Dell, Cynthia D. – College Student Journal, 2009
This paper examines the relationship between goal orientation and grades in two groups of college students: 369 students aged 18 to 23 and 71 students 24 years of age and older. Older students tended to earn higher grades than their younger counterparts. Non-traditional aged students also endorsed learning goals more than traditional-aged…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Failure, Goal Orientation