High assurance systems must guarantee safety, security, fault tolerance and survivability objectives; it is therefore essential that such objectives be made explicit, refined, specified precisely and completely in application-specific terms, interrelated and analyzed thoroughly. The paper argues that goals are an essential abstraction for eliciting, elaborating, modeling, specifying, analyzing,...

The authors investigated the influence of goal orientation on sales performance in a longitudinal field study with salespeople. As hypothesized, a learning goal orientation had a positive relationship with sales performance. This relationship was fully mediated by 3 self-regulation tactics: goal setting, effort, and planning. In contrast, a performance goal orientation was unrelated to sales pe...

Introduction: Several factors play a role in academic achievement,individual’s excellence and capability to do actions and tasks thatthe learner is in charge of in learning areas. The main goal of thisstudy was to present academic achievement causal model basedon the dimensions of goal orientation and learning approachesamong the students of Medical Science and Dentistry courses inGuilan Univer...

Abstract: In this study, we examine two student characteristics (goal orientation and feedback orientation) that might predispose students to use benefit from different types of feedback. Students receiving future-oriented exhibited significantly greater improvement in their quiz scores compared past-oriented feedback, although the degree was a function both goal orientation. Specifically, high...