Examining College-Level ELLs’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Goal Orientation

Examining Goal Orientation 1 Running head: GOAL ORIENTATIONS AMONG COLLEGE MAJORS Examining Goal Orientation Similarities and Differences Among College Majors: An HLM Analysis

This study employed hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to explore differences among college majors on five goals orientations. Specifically, measures of mastery-approach, performance-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-avoidance, and work-avoidance goals were collected from a sample of 1889 college students representing 26 different majors. Statistically significant differences existed amo...

A Closer Look at College Students : Self - Efficacy and Goal Orientation

Structural Relationships of Parents\' Education and Goal Orientation with Motivation, Self-Concept and Academic Self-Efficacy of Adolescent Female Students

This study sought to examine the structural relationships of parentschr('39') level of education and their goal orientation with motivation, self-concept and academic self-efficacy of adolescent female students. A number of 601 female 10th graders responded to the research instruments, including the Students Perception of Parents Goal Orientation Questionnaire (Hruda & Midgley, 1997), Motivated...

Prediction of Academic Self-efficacy Based on Self-regulated Learning Strategies, Metacognition Strategies And Goal-Progress Orientation In Students

The purpose of this study was to determine the prediction of academic self-efficacy based on self-regulated learning strategies, metacognition strategies and goal-progress orientation in students of Islamic Azad University branch Ahvaz. This research is correlational. For this purpose, the community of students, 400 people (180 boys and 180 girls) was selected based on stratified random samplin...

The Interplay Between Self-evaluation, Goal Orientation, and Self-efficacy on Performance and Learning

Objective Self-awareness Theory (Duval & Wicklund, 1972) proposes that self-evaluation increases an individual’s awareness of any discrepancy between their current performance and an internal goal. In the current study we prompted self-evaluation throughout an intelligence test (Analysis-Synthesis Test – AST) using confidence ratings (CR). AST performance, the extent to which participants incid...