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Guo, Meng; Leung, Frederick K. S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
This study compared the relationships between the goal orientations, learning strategies, and mathematics achievement of Chinese Miao and Han students. A total of 211 Han and 321 Miao fifth- and sixth-grade students from Qiandongnan participated in the study. The results suggest that, in both samples, mastery orientation positively predicted the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Correlation, Goal Orientation
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Goagoses, Naska; Itenge, Helvi; Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike; Koglin, Ute – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2020
Achievement goal orientations and self-regulated learning have become central constructs in education research, with both contributing significantly towards students' academic success. However, very little research has focused on students' social achievement goals, that is their social reasons for wanting to do well in school. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Mastery Learning, Self Management, Elementary School Students
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Duchesne, Stephane; Ratelle, Catherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Recent literature on the determinants of academic motivation has shown that parenting and emotions are central elements in understanding students' achievement goals. The authors of this study set out to examine the predictive relationship between parental behaviors during the last year of elementary school and adolescents' achievement goals at the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Emotional Problems, Structural Equation Models