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Was, Christopher A.; Greve, Maren – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2021
In the Spring of 2020, many universities moved all of the courses online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study was designed to determine if student goal orientations would influence how they responded to the shutdown of their university. Specifically, we were interested in whether the types of academic goals students set might influence…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Characteristics, Goal Orientation, Achievement Need
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Hejazi, Elaheh; Lavasani, Masoud Gholamali; Amani, Habib; Was, Christopher A. – Journal of Research in Education, 2012
The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between academic identity status, goal orientations and academic achievement. 301 first year high school students completed the Academic Identity Measure and Goal Orientation Questionnaire. The average of 10 exam scores in the final semester was used as an index of academic…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, High School Students, Questionnaires
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Was, Christopher A.; Al-Harthy, Ibrahim; Stack-Oden, Maura; Isaacson, Randall M. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2009
Introduction: Two constructs that have received a great deal of attention in Educational Psychology research are Achievement Orientation and Identity Status. However, the relationship between these two constructs has not received the attention that the current researcher feel is warranted. The impetus for the current study is the paucity of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Educational Psychology, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement