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Murayama, Kou; Zhou, Mingming; Nesbit, John C. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2009
The psychometric properties of scores from the Achievement Goal Questionnaire were examined in samples of Japanese (N = 326) and Canadian (N = 307) postsecondary students. Previous research found evidence of a four-factor structure of achievement goals in U.S. samples. Using confirmatory factor-analytic techniques, the authors found strong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, College Students, Factor Analysis
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Hirschfeld, Robert R.; Thomas, Christopher H.; McNatt, D. Brian – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2008
The authors explored implications of individuals' self-deception (a trait) for their self-reported intrinsic and extrinsic motivational dispositions and their actual learning performance. In doing so, a higher order structural model was developed and tested in which intrinsic and extrinsic motivational dispositions were underlying factors that…
Descriptors: Deception, Predictor Variables, Motivation, Incentives