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Husain Abdulhay; Moussa Ahmadian – rEFLections, 2024
This study attempted to discern the factor structure of the achievement goal orientation and goal structure constructs across the domain-specific task of essay writing in an Iranian EFL context. A convenience sample of 116 public university learners participated in a single-session, in-class study of an essay writing sampling and an immediate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Factor Structure, Goal Orientation, Factor Analysis
Amukune, Stephen; Calchei, Marcela; Józsa, Krisztián – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: The current focus of empirical studies demonstrates the significance of mastery motivation in child development, academic achievement and school success. Consequently, it is critical to have reliable and valid tools to measure this important variable accurately. The Preschool version of the Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire (DMQ)…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Child Development, Academic Achievement, Accuracy
Julian, Melissa; Cheadle, Alyssa C. D.; Knudsen, Kendra S.; Bilder, Robert M.; Dunkel Schetter, Christine – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: This paper presents a theory-based brief resilience scale, the Resilience Resources Scale (RRS), and evidence for its factor structure, reliability, and validity in two studies of undergraduate students. Participants: Study 1 sampled 295 students and Study 2 sampled 244 students. Methods: Study 1 participants completed the RRS and other…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Measures (Individuals), Mental Health, Physical Health
Tang, Hengjun; Seah, Wee Tiong; Zhang, Qiaoping; Zhang, Weizhong – ECNU Review of Education, 2021
Purpose: Given that prior research has confirmed that students' mathematics values significantly affect their mathematics learning, understanding how students' values form and change, especially during different learning stages, is an important topic. Design/Approach/Methods: This study administered a questionnaire to investigate the values of…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Mathematics Education, Student Attitudes, High School Students
Poondej, Chanut; Lerdpornkulrat, Thanita – Current Issues in Education, 2016
In the literature on motivational goals, there has been an increase on the interest of a concept of the 2 × 2 achievement goal framework. However, evidences supporting the reliability and validity of this framework are still needed. The study reported in this paper was to validate the Thai version of the 2 × 2 achievement goal orientation scale by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construct Validity, Goal Orientation, Likert Scales
Lin, Tzung-Jin; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate two survey instruments to evaluate high school students' scientific epistemic beliefs and goal orientations in learning science. The initial relationships between the sampled students' scientific epistemic beliefs and goal orientations in learning science were also investigated. A final valid…
Descriptors: Scientific Attitudes, Student Surveys, High School Students, Epistemology
Gafoor, K. Abdul; Abidha, Kurukkan – Online Submission, 2015
Research interest in achievement motivation and its correlates has grown in recent years. Though there are thousands of studies on goal orientation, the number of instruments to identify goal orientation based on four-fold model viz., performance approach goal orientation (PAP), performance avoidance goal orientation (PAV), mastery approach goal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
Doherty-Bigara, Jacqueline; Gilmore, Linda – Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2015
Mastery motivation is an important developmental construct that has implications for development across the lifespan. Research to date has focused predominantly on infants and children, with the Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire (DMQ) being the most widely used measure of mastery motivation. This article reports on the development and initial…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Motivation, Questionnaires, Test Construction
Baygi, Ali Hosseini; Ghonsooly, Behzad; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2017
Effective learners are cognizant of their own basic needs and abilities so as to maximize their capabilities, dispositions, as well as potentialities up to become self-actualized individuals. To delve into the process of university students' self-actualization, we strived to amalgamate this construct with two motivational-associated factors, i.e.,…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Goal Orientation, Self Actualization, Semi Structured Interviews
Petosa, R. Lingyak; Holtz, Brian – American Journal of Health Education, 2013
Background: Health behavior theory generally does not include intrinsic motivation as a determinate of health practices. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test the flow theory of exercise adherence. Flow theory posits that exercise can be intrinsically rewarding if the experiences of self/time transcendence and control/mastery are achieved…
Descriptors: Exercise, Health Behavior, Reliability, Validity
Nasser, Ramzi; McInerney, Dennis – Educational Psychology, 2016
This study investigated the relation between motivational goals and university intentions, school valuing and school achievement. The premise of this study is that motivational goals play a key role in academic values and achievement. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to establish the construct validity of the motivational measures drawn…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Attitudes
King, Ronnel B.; Watkins, David A. – International Journal of Testing, 2013
The aim of this study is to assess the cross-cultural applicability of the Chinese version of the Inventory of School Motivation (ISM; McInerney & Sinclair, 1991) in the Hong Kong context using both within-network and between-network approaches to construct validation. The ISM measures four types of achievement goals: mastery, performance,…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Reliability, Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries