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Achievement goals, observed behaviors, and performance: Testing a mediation model in a college classroom

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Achievement goals have been examined extensively in relationship to self-reported learning behaviors and achievement, yet very little work has observed the behaviors through which achievement goals might influence learning and performance.We collected fine-grained behavioral data to assess students' activities throughout the semester in a college psychology course, and then used one learning behavior, access to course outlines, to explain the relationship between self-reported achievement goals and grades.Results suggest that downloading course outlines partially mediates the relationship between goals and grades.Identifying how goals influence achievement through observable behaviors contributes to the theoretical understanding of achievement goals while also suggesting practical implications for instructors.

Source: eScholarship (California Digital Library)

Authors: J. Elizabeth Richey, Timothy J. Nokes‐Malach, Aleza Wallace

Language: English

Topic: Education, Achievement, and Giftedness

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: G3901721184

OpenAlex ID: W2406192233

FWCI: 1.693

Cites: 28

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10