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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
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Berger, Jean-Louis; Karabenick, Stuart A. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Considerable evidence indicates that student motivation and use of learning strategies are related. There is insufficient understanding, however, about their reciprocal effects--whether motivation affects strategy use, the converse, or whether the effects are bidirectional--and which components of motivation and strategies are involved. A two-wave…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Learning Strategies, Student Motivation, Grade 9