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Direct linkDirk Tempelaar – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Background: For over a decade, growth-oriented achievement goal constructs like potential-based goals and personal best goals have remained relatively unnoticed. This empirical study aims to highlight that goal theorists might be limiting themselves by not incorporating potential-based goals into their frameworks. Aims: The primary objective of…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Student Development
Wolniak, Gregory C.; Muskens, Marjolein – Research in Higher Education, 2021
The study focuses on the phenomenon of "undermatching" in relation to the development of noncognitive attributes during the first year of college. Particular attention is paid to examining the role of first-generation college student status in moderating these relationships. The analyses utilize longitudinal data from the Netherlands (N…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, First Generation College Students, Student Motivation
van Herpen, Sanne G. A.; Meeuwisse, Marieke; Hofman, W. H. Adriaan; Severiens, Sabine E.; Arends, Lidia R. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2017
Given the large number of dropouts in the 1st year at university, it is important to identify early predictors of 1st-year academic success. The present study (n = 453 first-year students) contributes to literature on the transition from secondary to higher education by investigating how the non-cognitive factors "pre-university" effort…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
