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How Are Achievement Goals Associated with Self-, Co-, and Socially Shared Regulation in Collaborative Learning?
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Greisel, Martin; Melzner, Nadine; Kollar, Ingo; Dresel, Markus – Educational Psychology, 2023
It has been suggested that self-organized study groups need to regulate their learning at three levels: the self-, the co-, and the socially shared level. Yet, little is known about how individual learner characteristics influence these regulation processes. In this study, we investigate how students' achievement goals are associated with…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Cooperative Learning
An Experimental Investigation of Claimed Self-Handicapping Strategies across Motivational Climates Based on Achievement Goal and Self-Determination Theories
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Coudevylle, Guillaume R.; Boulley-Escriva, Géraldine; Finez, Lucie; Eugène, Karen; Robin, Nicolas – Educational Psychology, 2020
The purpose of the present experiment was to investigate whether the motivational climates (MCs) drawn from achievement goal and self-determination theories would affect perceived competence and the use of claimed self-handicapping. Specifically, this study examined the effects of performance MC, mastery MC and need-supportive MC on these two…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Performance, Mastery Learning
Which Feedback Is More Effective for Pursuing Multiple Goals of Differing Importance? The Interaction Effects of Goal Importance and Performance Feedback Type on Self-Regulation and Task Achievement
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Lee, Hyunjoo – Educational Psychology, 2016
This study examined how performance feedback type (progress vs. distance) affects Korean college students' self-regulation and task achievement according to relative goal importance in the pursuit of multiple goals. For this study, 146 students participated in a computerised task. The results showed the interaction effects of goal importance and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Self Control, Achievement, Foreign Countries
Dominant Achievement Goals and Academic Outcomes across Tracks in High School
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Scheltinga, Peter A. M.; Timmermans, Anneke C.; van der Werf, Greetje P. C. – Educational Psychology, 2017
The self-reported grades Dutch, English and Math of 13,970 students in the third grade of Dutch secondary education (US grade 9) were investigated with regard to educational track-level and dominant achievement goal (DAG). The performance approach goal group scored significantly higher on all three subjects than the performance avoidance group,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grades (Scholastic), Secondary School Students, Track System (Education)
The Relations between Filial Piety, Goal Orientations and Academic Achievement in Hong Kong
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Chen, Wei-Wen – Educational Psychology, 2016
This study examined the relationships among filial piety, goal orientations, and academic achievement among Chinese students. A survey of 336 university students in Hong Kong was carried out to collect information on their filial piety beliefs, goal orientations and grade point averages. Structural equation modelling indicated that reciprocal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Correlation
Attributional Beliefs of Singapore Students: Relations to Self-Construal, Competence and Achievement Goals
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Luo, Wenshu; Hogan, David J.; Yeung, Alexander Seeshing; Sheng, Yee Zher; Aye, Khin Maung – Educational Psychology, 2014
This study investigates attributional beliefs of Singapore secondary students in their English study and how they can be predicted by self-construal, competence and achievement goals. A total of 1,496 students were administered surveys on seven attributions, independent and interdependent self-construals, previous achievement, self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Implications of Task Structure on Self-Regulated Learning and Achievement
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Lodewyk, Ken R.; Winne, Philip H.; Jamieson-Noel, Dianne L. – Educational Psychology, 2009
School tasks interact with student motivation, cognition, and instruction to influence learning and achievement. Heeding calls for additional research linking motivational and cognitive factors in learning and instruction on specific tasks within authentic classroom settings we quantitatively and qualitatively track 90 tenth-grade science…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Goal Orientation