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Longitudinal Relations among Expectancy, Mastery-Approach, Effort, and Achievement
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Jianzhong Xu – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
This study aims to explore longitudinal associations among homework expectancy, mastery-approach, homework effort, and mathematics achievement involving middle school students over one school year. Results indicated that there was support for a positive reciprocal influence of mastery-approach and effort; greater initial mastery-approach resulted…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Learning Processes, Mastery Learning, Expectation
Relations between Classroom Goal Structures and Students' Goal Orientations in Mathematics Classes: When Is a Mastery Goal Structure Adaptive?
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Skaalvik, Einar M.; Federici, Roger A. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2016
The purpose of this study was to test possible interactions between mastery and performance goal structures in mathematics classrooms when predicting students' goal orientations. More specifically, we tested if the degree of performance goal structure moderated the associations between mastery goal structure and students' goal orientations.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Mathematics Education