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Goal orientations refer to the reasons or purposes for engaging in learning activities and explain individuals’ different ways of approaching and responding to achievement situations (Ames & Archer, 1988; Meece, Anderman, & Anderman, 2006). The two most basic goal orientations are mastery and performance goals (Ames & Archer, 1988).
Goal orientation is defined as the way individuals interpret and respond to achievement situations, with two main types: performance and mastery. Performance goal orientation focuses on comparing oneself to others, while mastery goal orientation emphasizes developing skills against internal standards.
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]
22 wrz 2006 · Arguably, most current research in goal orientation theory can be said to be based in one of two perspectives on the nature of goal orientations: goal orientations as emerging from schemas of achievement situations and goal orientations as based in achievement-related self-schemas.
21 sty 2019 · Goal orientation, a theory that originated primarily in the educational and social psychology fields, has emerged in the past two decades as a prominent theory in organizational psychology and...
17 kwi 2007 · Goal orientation theory suggests that the adaptiveness of a particular way of responding to stress in academic settings is determined in part by the kinds of goals (i.e.,...
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).
