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Nordengren, Chase – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
What can educators do to help students care about their learning and become more invested in their own success? Chase Nordengren describes how a school district created a goal-setting culture in all classrooms at all grade levels. The district began with a complex, research-based, prescriptive program that teachers found did not work well with…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Learning Processes, School Districts, Educational Practices
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Dunaway, Claudia; Lewis, Carlee – Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2021
Purpose: This tutorial describes a comprehensive approach to the development of collaborative academic conversations in older students with language delays and impairments. Support materials including a link to an instructional video are provided. Conclusions: These students require systematic, explicit instruction to develop competence and to…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Academic Achievement, Teaching Methods, Video Technology
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Thomsen, Tamara – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2016
One way to avert negative influences on well-being when confronted with blocked goals is the flexible adjustment of one's goals to the given situation. This study examines developmental differences in flexible goal adjustment (FGA) regarding age and gender in a sample of N = 815 participants (10 to 20 years; M = 13.63, SD = 2.60, 48.5% male).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education
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Chan, David W. – Roeper Review, 2009
Positive and negative perfectionism as well as four goal orientations were assessed in a sample of 315 Chinese gifted students in Hong Kong. These students tended to endorse positive perfectionism more than negative perfectionism and prefer learning and social goals over performance and avoidance goals. Learning and social goal orientations…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Goal Orientation, Foreign Countries, Personality Traits
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Pajares, Frank; Cheong, Yuk F. – International Journal of Educational Research, 2003
This study provides a developmental perspective on achievement goal orientations in writing using data obtained from 1266 students ranging in age from 9 to 17. The strength of task goal orientation decreased from elementary school to middle school and then increased in high school; performance-approach goals decreased from elementary school to…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Gender Differences, Writing Achievement
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education