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The two most basic goal orientations are mastery and performance goals (Ames & Archer, 1988). Different researchers refer to these goals with the following terms: learning and performance goals (Elliot & Dweck, 1988), task-involved and ego-involved goals (Nicholls, 1984), and task-focused and ability-focused goals (Maehr & Midgley, 1991).
- Introduction to Psychology
Goal orientations refer to the reasons or purposes for...
- Introduction to Psychology
22 wrz 2006 · Goal Orientation Theory. Goal orientations were originally defined as situated orientations for action in an achievement task (Ames, 1992a; Dweck, 1986; Nicholls, 1984).
Goal orientation, or achievement orientation, is an "individual disposition towards developing or validating one's ability in achievement settings". [1] In general, an individual can be said to be mastery or performance oriented, based on whether one's goal is to develop one's ability or to demonstrate one's ability, respectively. [2]
Goal orientations refer to the reasons or purposes for engaging in a goal and explain individuals’ different ways of approaching and responding to achievement situations (Ames & Archer, 1988; Meece, Anderman, & Anderman, 2006). Mastery and performance goals are the two most basic goal orientations (Ames & Archer, 1988).
Definition. Achievement goal theory (AGT), also known as goal theory or goal orientation theory, attempts to explain achievement-related motivation and behaviors. Achievement goals reflect the purposes that individuals adopt while pursuing academic tasks as well as the standards they employ to evaluate their competence on that task.
The study investigated the potential impact of task goal orientation on cognitive, social and emotional aspects of task performance through the lens of learner engagement. Sixteen EFL learner dyads completed a convergent decision-making task and a divergent opinion-exchange task.
In this chapter, we describe the principles of a person-oriented approach to studying individual differences (and similarities), and how it can be applied to the study of students’ achievement goal orientations.
