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Schwinger, Malte; Steinmayr, Ricarda; Spinath, Birgit – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
The self-regulation of motivation represents a key feature of self-regulated learning. Recent studies have documented that students use a variety of strategies to sustain their learning motivation and that most of these strategies have positive effects. However, less is known about how students integrate the various motivational strategies into an…
Descriptors: College Students, Motivation Techniques, Student Motivation, Learning Motivation
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Steinmayr, Ricarda; Bipp, Tanja; Spinath, Birgit – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
Goal orientations are thought to be an important predictor of scholastic achievement. The present paper investigated the joint influence of goal orientations, intelligence, and personality on school performance in a sample of N=520 11th and 12th graders (303 female; mean age M=16.94 years). Intelligence, the Big Five factors of personality…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation