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,...

with the development of research on educational psychology and foreign language teaching and learning, one of the most controversial concepts in educational psychology might be the issues related to the students’ achievement goal orientations. regarding the goals that students adopt which might influence their academic success and failure, this study was undertaken to determine whether gender a...

AbstractDeveloping self-regulated learners has been the life-long ambition of different stakeholders in education. This study was set out to find the relationships between self-regulated strategies as defined by time and resource management, cognitive and metacognitive strategies, achievement goals classified as mastery, performance-approach and performance-avoidance, and the listening ac...

Academic Optimism, Occupational Goal Orientation, and Job Satisfaction among Teachers R. Badri Gargari, Ph.D. M. Beyraami, Ph.D. S. Gholaami Job satisfaction is a function of many socio-cognitive factors among which are those measured in this study. A sample of 274 teachers randomly selected from among all elementary school teachers in Tabriz was given three questionnaires ...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of learning goal orientation at the individual, group and organizational level in the relationship of transformational leadership with adaptive performance. the sample consisted of 175 employees of a service organization. fitness of the proposed model and indirect effects was examined through structural equation modeling and bootst...