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Helena Granziera; Rebecca J. Collie; Andrew J. Martin – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Personal best (PB) goal setting refers to the pursuit of individual improvement through striving to outperform a previous best level of performance or effort. Although promising evidence has been building, numerous empirical questions remain to be answered, including how PB goal setting may operate alongside various contextual predictors of…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Teaching Styles, Homework, Student Improvement
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Gitima Sharma; Mariya A. Yukhymenko-Lescroart – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2024
The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which life purpose explained the variance in college students' levels of resilience and persistence amidst COVID-19 pandemic. This study utilized a cross-sectional design and focused upon the three dimensions of life purpose: awareness of purpose, awakening to purpose, altruistic purpose.…
Descriptors: College Students, Resilience (Psychology), Academic Persistence, COVID-19
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Fengjuan Hu; Zheng Jiang; Hongbiao Yin; Guoxiu Tian – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
The appraisal theories of emotions and existing studies have indicated the relationships between emotions and goals. However, little research has investigated the role of teachers' student-oriented goals for their emotions. This study examined how teachers' teaching-related emotions relate to their student-oriented goals directly or indirectly…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Goal Orientation, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Bailey Von der Mehden; Laurel Philpott; Elisabeth E. Schussler – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2025
Student self-efficacy, their confidence to successfully perform a task, is positively related to course performance. Students with high self-efficacy for a task are more motivated toward that task. Yet few studies have measured students' self-efficacy and motivation levels after exams are returned in introductory biology classes or studied how…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Predictor Variables, Grades (Scholastic), Student Motivation
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Moon-Heum Cho; Eunjung Grace Oh; Yunjeong Chang; Seokwon Hwang – Distance Education, 2025
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among MOOC learners' personal goal achievement, instructor goal achievement, learning experiences measured with perceived learning and course satisfaction, and their continuance intention in a MOOC offered by a research university in the United States. A total of 203 MOOC learners…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Goal Orientation, Technology Uses in Education, Intention
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Renz Louis T. Montano – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2024
Objective: Existing research demonstrates that being mastery oriented is associated with several academic outcomes such as better engagement and achievement. To date, however, there is a dearth of research evidence on the emotional payoffs of mastery orientation. The current study explored the link between mastery orientation, subjective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Mastery Learning, Orientation
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Lim, May Li; Chue, Kah Loong – School Psychology International, 2023
The present study examined the associations of academic resilience and achievement goals with test anxiety, and the moderating role of achievement goals in the relation between academic resilience and test anxiety among 1632 secondary one students from eight secondary schools in Singapore. Results showed that students who reported lower levels of…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Test Anxiety, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation
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Dirk Tempelaar – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Background: For over a decade, growth-oriented achievement goal constructs like potential-based goals and personal best goals have remained relatively unnoticed. This empirical study aims to highlight that goal theorists might be limiting themselves by not incorporating potential-based goals into their frameworks. Aims: The primary objective of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Student Development
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Lars de Vreugd; Anouschka van Leeuwen; Marieke van der Schaaf – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: University students need to self-regulate but are sometimes incapable of doing so. Learning Analytics Dashboards (LADs) can support students' appraisal of study behaviour, from which goals can be set and performed. However, it is unclear how goal-setting and self-motivation within self-regulated learning elicits behaviour when using an…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Educational Technology, Goal Orientation, Learning Motivation
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Maria Theobald – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Background and Aims: The hypothesis that study strategies can compensate for less study time in predicting learning outcomes has often been proposed but rarely tested empirically. Methods: In the present study, 231 university students reported their daily perceived time spent on self-study, study strategies (planning, monitoring, concentration and…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Study Habits, Learning Strategies, Time on Task
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Vezne, Rabia; Yildiz Durak, Hatice; Atman Uslu, Nilüfer – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
In this study, the effects of remote learning attitude, extrinsic and intrinsic goal orientation on the dimensions of online engagement were examined. 293 teacher candidates at a state university in Turkey participated in the research. PLS-SEM was used to analyze the data. In all models, relationships related to online collaboration with peers,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Predictor Variables, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes
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Sevim-Cirak, Nese; Erol, Osman; Baser-Gulsoy, Vesile Gul – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2023
Students' readiness for e-learning is necessary in order to make the e-learning process more effective. Readiness for e-learning refers to the degree of having pre-knowledge and skills, and affective characteristics such as the necessary attitude and motivation to experience this process most effectively. Academic orientations of the students also…
Descriptors: College Students, Electronic Learning, Readiness, Goal Orientation
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Hynes, Keeley; Lannin, Daniel G.; Kanter, Jeremy B.; Yazedjian, Ani; Nauta, Margaret M. – Youth & Society, 2022
Previous research suggests that ruminating on social media content is associated with greater mental distress (Yang et al., 2018). This study examined whether materialistic value orientation (MVO)--prioritizing values and goals related to consumerism, consumption, and social status--predicted social media rumination in a sample of diverse…
Descriptors: Social Media, Adolescents, Values, Predictor Variables
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Kwok, Andrew; Keese, Jeffrey; Suárez, Mario I.; Mitchell, Douglas; Huston, Debbee – Learning Environments Research, 2022
The pedagogical beliefs of novice teachers and their coaches throughout a two-year induction program and how those beliefs impact their induction experiences were explored. Mixed methods were used to explore survey responses from novice teachers and their supporting coaches. We used t-tests to identify differences in specific beliefs within groups…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Loscko, Kimberly K.; Townsend, Susannah; Bowers-Abbott, Miriam – HAPS Educator, 2022
The current study examines if participants completing an early online academic orientation display significantly higher levels of achievement in anatomy and physiology (A&P) compared to those who do not complete this orientation. The study involves a sample of first year nursing students in a private Catholic college in a major midwestern city…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Orientation, Anatomy, Physiology
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