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What Do Chinese Students Say about Their Academic Motivational Goals--Reasons Underlying Academic Strivings?
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Wang, Jing; Rao, Nirmala – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
Although differences in academic motivation may exist across cultures, research on academic motivational goals has been Western-focused and relied on Western originated questionnaire. There is a dearth of studies adopting bottom-up, emic, and in-depth approaches to explore East Asian students' academic motivation. This study describes Chinese…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Student Attitudes, Social Status
The Role of Social-Academic Goals in Chinese Students' Self-Regulated Learning
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Wang, Jing; King, Ronnel B.; Rao, Nirmala – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2019
The role of mastery and performance goals in self-regulated learning (SRL) has received much attention. However, in collectivist and Confucian-heritage contexts, social-academic goals may also play an important, yet unexamined role in SRL. This study examined the association between social-academic goals and SRL. We tested a hierarchical model…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Structural Equation Models, Mastery Learning, Goal Orientation