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Direct linkLiem, 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
Tsai, Chin-Chung; Ho, Hsin Ning Jessie; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Lin, Hung-Ming – Learning and Instruction, 2011
This study examined the relationships among Taiwanese high school students' scientific epistemic beliefs, conceptions of learning science, and self-efficacy of learning science. The questionnaire responses gathered from 377 high school students in Taiwan were utilized to elicit such relationships. The analysis of the structural equation model…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries
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
Peer reviewedGarcia-Celay, I. Montero; Tapia, J. Alonso – Learning and Instruction, 1992
Three models of achievement motivation in the classroom are contrasted. Results with 155 high school students suggest that the model of C. S. Dweck and E. S. Elliott offers a better explanation of the relationships among achievement motivation, attributions, emotional reactions, expectancies, and performance than do the other models. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis
