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Skaalvik, Einar M.; Federici, Roger A. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2016
The purpose of this study was to test possible interactions between mastery and performance goal structures in mathematics classrooms when predicting students' goal orientations. More specifically, we tested if the degree of performance goal structure moderated the associations between mastery goal structure and students' goal orientations.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Mathematics Education
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Federici, Roger A.; Skaalvik, Einar M.; Tangen, Truls N. – International Education Studies, 2015
This study explores relations between students' perceptions of the classroom goal structures, their personal goal orientations, mathematics anxiety, and help-seeking behavior in mathematics classes. The respondents were 309 Norwegian middle school students. The data were analyzed by means of structural equation modeling (SEM). The analyses…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Goal Orientation, Mathematics Anxiety
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Høigaard, Rune; Kovac, Velibor Bobo; Øverby, Nina Cecilie; Haugen, Tommy – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
This study investigated the effects of proximal and distal constructs on adolescent's academic achievement through self-efficacy. Participants included 482 ninth-and tenth-grade Norwegian students who completed a questionnaire designed to assess school-goal orientations, organizational citizenship behavior, academic self-efficacy, and academic…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, School Psychology, Academic Achievement, Questionnaires
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Halvari, Hallgeir; Skjesol, Knut; Bagoien, Tor Egil – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2011
The present research tested the longitudinal relations over a school-year between motivational climates, achievement goals, and five physical education outcomes, namely intrinsic motivation, perceived competence, positive attitude, exertion, and attendance in physical education. The results showed that students' mastery goals measured early in the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Motivation, Longitudinal Studies, Educational Environment
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Ommundsen, Yngvar – European Physical Education Review, 2006
This study examined the relationship of motivational climate and differential achievement goals to meta-cognitive self-regulation, regulation of effort, help-seeking and self-handicapping in physical education (PE). The sample consisted of 273 pupils (boys n = 125; girls n = 148) attending 10th grade PE classes in Norway. Both motivational…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Grade 10