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Performing under Challenge: The Differing Effects of Ability and Normative Performance Goals
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Chung, Yoonkyung; Bong, Mimi; Kim, Sung-il – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
The effects of ability performance goals, normative performance goals, and mastery goals on anxiety, interest, and performance were examined in a series of experiments. Challenging problem-solving tasks that would demonstrate the effects of each performance goal more clearly were designed. Groups of early adolescents (Study 1) and college students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation, Ability, Early Adolescents
The Relationship between Academic Coping, Approach Achievement Goals and the Fear of Shame and Embarrassment in Science Class
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Mete, Pelin; Subasi, Munevver – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2021
This study aims to examine the relationship between approach achievement goals, the fear of shame embarrassment failure, and coping strategies in secondary school science courses. Academic coping was handled in four dimensions: positive, projective, denial, and non-coping. The sample of the study included 249 sixth, seventh, and eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Goal Orientation, Coping, Correlation
The Effects of a Self-Regulated Learning Teaching Unit on Students' Performance Calibration, Goal Attainment, and Attributions in Physical Education
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Kolovelonis, Athanasios; Goudas, Marios; Samara, Evdoxia – Journal of Experimental Education, 2022
This study examined the effects of a self-regulated learning teaching unit on students' performance calibration, goal attainment, and attributions in physical education. Participants were 101 fifth- and sixth-grade students who were randomly assigned to an experimental (57 students) and a control group (44 students). Calibration indexes were…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Grade 5, Grade 6, Performance
Parental Involvement and Student Motivation: A Quantitative Study of the Relationship between Student Goal Orientation and Student Perceptions of Parental Involvement among 5th Grade Students
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Mendoza, Christine Daryabigi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine a possible relationship between student perceptions of parental involvement and student goal orientation for an ethnically diverse fifth grade elementary population from high-poverty schools. This study was quantitative in nature and employed the Patterns of Adaptive Learning Scales (PALS) to assess the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Parent Participation, Goal Orientation, Student Diversity
Goal Orientations and Adolescent Mathematics Achievement
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Keys, Tran Dang – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Motivation is a fundamental educational challenge for adolescents in the United States, and particularly for immigrant youth. The motivation to achieve, especially in mathematics, declines during adolescence. Most of what is known about motivation is based on studies of predominately middle-class White students; yet the influx of immigrants over…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Mathematics Achievement, Adolescents, Immigrants
School, Teacher, Peers, and Parents' Goals Emphases and Adolescents' Motivation to Learn Science in and out of School
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Vedder-Weiss, Dana; Fortus, David – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2013
Achievement goal theory distinguishes between mastery goals (the goals of developing competence) and performance goals (the goals of demonstrating competence) [Ames [1992] "Journal of Educational Psychology" 84: 261-271]. In this study, we employed this theory aiming to better understand why adolescents' motivation to learn science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement, Goal Orientation, Theories