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Kim, Jung-In; Schallert, Diane L.; Kim, Myoungsook – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Our goal was to identify how students' perceptions of their parents shape the kind and degree of motivational goal orientations that they adopt in their mathematics classroom, broadening the application of achievement goal orientation theory and self-determination theory to students in Korea. Two groups of students participated, one from a middle…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation, Student Motivation, Achievement Need
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Pascarella, Ernest T.; Terenzini, Patrick T. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Path analysis was used to provide a comprehensive test of the validity of Tinto's causal model of voluntary withdrawal from a postsecondary institution. This study also tests Tinto's hypothesis of compensatory interactions between social and academic integration and between institutional and goal commitment. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Goal Orientation, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies