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Personal Best Goals and Academic and Social Functioning: A Longitudinal Perspective
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Liem, Gregory Arief D.; Ginns, Paul; Martin, Andrew J.; Stone, Barbara; Herrett, Maree – Learning and Instruction, 2012
Personal best goals (PB goals) articulate a target performance standard that matches or exceeds one's previous best. This study examined the role of PB goals in academic and social functioning. Alongside academic and social outcome measures, PB goal items were administered to 249 high-school students at the beginning and end of their school year.…
Descriptors: Objectives, Goal Orientation, High School Students, Longitudinal Studies