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Ginns, Paul; Martin, Andrew J.; Durksen, Tracy L.; Burns, Emma C.; Pope, Alun – Australian Educational Researcher, 2018
Personal Best (PB) goals are defined as specific, challenging, and competitively self-referenced goals involving a level of performance or effort that meets or exceeds an individual's previous best. Much of the available research underpinning arguments for PB goal-setting is self-report-based; thus, the causal effect of PB goals on learning…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Arithmetic, Problem Solving, Grade 5