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Metacognitive Beliefs, Self-Confidence and Primary Learning Environment of Sixth Grade Students
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Kleitman, Sabina; Gibson, Jennifer – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
Metacognition is an integral component of a self-regulated approach to learning. The present study examined the relationships between academic self-efficacy and perceptions of one's own competence in memory and reasoning abilities, and their role in predicting the Self-confidence trait. The study also aimed to determine the role of key classroom…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Educational Practices
Goal Self-Concordance Moderates the Relationship between Achievement Goals and Indicators of Academic Adjustment
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Gaudreau, Patrick – Learning and Individual Differences, 2012
This study examined whether the good or bad outcomes associated with mastery- and performance-approach achievement goals depend on the extent to which these goals are pursued for self-concordant reasons. A sample of 220 undergraduate students completed measures of achievement goals, goal self-concordance, academic satisfaction, and academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average, Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness
Self-Efficacy, Goal Orientations and Learning Strategies as Mediators between Preceding and Subsequent Academic Achievement
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Diseth, Age – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
High school grade point average (HSGPA), self-efficacy, goal orientations, learning strategies, and examination grade were measured in a sample of Norwegian undergraduate psychology students in order to investigate motives and strategies as mediators between preceding and subsequent academic achievement. Correlation analysis showed strong…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies
Prevention of Self-Handicapping--The Protective Function of Mastery Goals
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Schwinger, Malte; Stiensmeier-Pelster, Joachim – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
Drawing on modern diathesis-stress theories which suggest a multiplicative approach to determine one's personal vulnerability status, we posit that the degree of an individual's vulnerability for using self-handicapping strategies in case of self-threatening events depends on the interaction between different vulnerability and protective factors.…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Achievement Need, Educational Practices, Fear
Applying Silvia's Model of Interest to Academic Text: Is There a Third Appraisal?
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Connelly, Daniel A. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
Recent research, treating interest as an emotion, indicates the cognitive appraisals of novelty-complexity and coping potential predict interest. This appraisal-based model of interest has not yet been applied to educational research. The present study evaluated the significance of the model regarding the activity of reading expository,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Cognitive Processes, Coping, Student Interests
Implicit Beliefs, Achievement Goals, and Procrastination: A Mediational Analysis
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Howell, Andrew J.; Buro, Karen – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
As a maladaptive behavioural outcome, procrastination should correlate with beliefs about ability and achievement goals that are themselves relatively maladaptive. Accordingly, procrastination should be predicted by entity as opposed to incremental implicit theories (i.e., viewing attributes such as ability as relatively fixed vs. malleable,…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Beliefs, Student Behavior, Undergraduate Students
Motivational Components of Self-Regulated Learning and Reading Strategy Use in University Students: The Role of Goal Orientation Patterns
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Kolic-Vehovec, Svjetlana; Roncevic, Barbara; Bajsanski, Igor – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
The aim of the present study was to identify dominant goal orientation patterns in university students, define their motivational profiles and their reading strategy use. The results of cluster analysis showed that four groups of students could be differentiated according to their goal orientation: mastery, mastery-performance,…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Multivariate Analysis