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Stefan Janke – Educational Psychology Review, 2024
Achievement goals have been key concepts for describing what motivates individuals in educational contexts. While achievement goals have often merely been conceptualized in terms of aspired end-states (aims of goal striving), contemporary research has proposed a more holistic perspective synthesizing these aims alongside autonomous versus…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Aspiration
McREL International, 2024
Research on effective teaching and learning shows that when students set and monitor their own learning goals, it significantly narrows achievement gaps. While teacher-written objectives are important for clarity, when these objectives are re-written as personal statements, they evolve from what a teacher needs to teach to what students want to…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Educational Environment
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Sibel Altikulaç; Tieme W. P. Janssen; Junlin Yu; Smiddy Nieuwenhuis; Nienke M. Van Atteveldt – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: According to Dweck's mindset theory, implicit beliefs (a.k.a. mindset) have an organizing function, bringing together mindset, achievement goals and effort beliefs in a broader meaning system. Two commonly described meaning systems are a growth-mindset meaning system with mastery goals and positive effort beliefs, and a fixed-mindset…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Beliefs, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
Nathaniel W. Woznicki – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While gender-based achievement gaps have been widely explored in academic motivation research, gender-related variables such as sexual orientation and other-gender similarity radically shift understandings of these disparities. Recent research has shown that gay men have a notable bachelor's degree attainment advantage over heterosexual men while…
Descriptors: Sex, Sexual Orientation, Student Motivation, Intersectionality
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Bojan Tomic; Jelena Jovanovic; Nikola Milikic; Vladan Devedžic – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2024
Earning Open Badges instead of regular grades and credits can be a motivating factor for high-performing students in terms of attending classes and completing assignments in extracurricular courses, but to what extent? And for what student profiles? To tackle these questions, we conducted a quantitative study with high-performing students. Each…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Goal Orientation, Programming, High Achievement
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Tan, Ser Hong; Liem, Gregory Arief D.; Ramos, Rufino L., III; Elliot, Andrew J.; Nie, Youyan; Pang, Joyce S. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2022
Goal complexes, which are formed by pairing standards of competence strivings with their underlying reasons, are essential to an understanding of achievement goal regulation. This paper examines goal complexes that cross other-approach and other-avoidance goals with the approach-avoidance dimensions of Big Three motives as underlying reasons. 220…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Undergraduate Students
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Zion W. Solomon; Sonya E. Munsell – Educational Research: Theory and Practice, 2024
The study explores the influence of motivation on college students' achievement, emphasizing the differential roles of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. 147 college students, aged eighteen to forty-two, completed a survey consisting of the Academic Motivation Scale and the Academic Success Inventory for College Students and provided their grade…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Motivation, Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration
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Andrew Walker; Naomi R. Aguiar; Raechel N. Soicher; Yu-Chun Kuo; Jessica Resig – Online Learning, 2024
In higher education, motivational factors are considered one of "the strongest predictors of academic performance" (Honike et al., 2020, p. 1). A meta-analysis of face-to-face (f2f) courses (Richardson et al., 2012) supports these claims, finding a strong correlation between performance self-efficacy and academic performance (r = 0.59),…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Performance, Correlation, Electronic Learning
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Alexander Vincent Struck Jannini; Zeynep Akdemir; Muhsin Menekse – Grantee Submission, 2024
Background: Achievement goal theory is a popular motivational theory within education and psychology, with several review papers summarizing the extensive work done in these fields. Although reviews exist in these specific fields, none exists within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. This is a considerable gap in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, STEM Education, Science Achievement
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Alexander Vincent Struck Jannini; Zeynep Akdemir; Muhsin Menekse – Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Background: Achievement goal theory is a popular motivational theory within education and psychology, with several review papers summarizing the extensive work done in these fields. Although reviews exist in these specific fields, none exists within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. This is a considerable gap in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, STEM Education, Science Achievement
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Shin, Matt; Myers, Scott A.; Johnson, Zac D. – Communication Education, 2023
We integrated perspectives from achievement goal theory and expectancy-value theory to investigate how undergraduate students' (N = 475) achievement motivation might influence their instructional dissent. A latent profile analysis of students' achievement goals, performance self-efficacy, task value, and perceived cost revealed four distinct…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Dissent
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Jia Ma; Stephen W. Smith; Brian R. Barber – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2025
Early adolescents entering middle school are at a pivotal developmental phase as they become less dependent on parents/guardians and seek greater autonomy while encountering a complexity of social demands requiring them to regulate their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to achieve academic and social success. Yet, students who receive services…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Middle School Students, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders
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Benlahcene, Abderrahim – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2022
Previous research examined the importance of flourishing in promoting optimal outcomes in academic settings. However, no empirical research has been done on the relationships of flourishing with personal best (PB) and the four aspects of student engagement. The current study addresses this gap by investigating PB goals as the mediating variable in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Learner Engagement, Goal Orientation
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Talbi, Omar; Ouared, Abdelkader – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Determining student motivation within the context of Learning Analytics is fundamental for academic students to realize their educational goals. We aim to perceive the student's motivation state at a high level of abstraction and act accordingly to deal with motivation issues. We investigate how Model-Driven Engineering paradigms capture the…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Learning Analytics, Teaching Methods
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Yew Leong Wong – Learning: Research and Practice, 2024
Human flourishing is often defined in terms of a collection of positive human factors. However, many people around the world are living in conditions that block human flourishing and find themselves powerless to change those circumstances. I argue that it is more useful to examine instead the idea of living well. Drawing upon Yu Hua's novel…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Living Standards, Stress Variables, Barriers
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