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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).
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.,...
22 wrz 2006 · The potential success and usefulness of goal orientation theory for education depends on the perspective concerning the nature of goal orientations—perspective that cannot be detached from the procedures used to operationalize the concept.
The article then suggests six possible theoretical models of goal orientations that seem to be suggested by the literature, including the perspectives of goal orientations as emerging from: situation-schemas, self-schemas, self-prime, needs, values, and situated meaning-making processes.
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...
In relation to students' learning goals, one of the most important cognitive-social theories is "goal orientation", 17 which has become a widely used reference framework in the psychology of education. 18 It refers to the purposes or reasons that students follow to guide their conduct in academic situations.
The article then suggests six possible theoretical models of goal orientations that seem to be suggested by the literature, including the perspectives of goal orientations as emerging from: situation-schemas, self-schemas, self-prime, needs, values, and situated meaning-making processes.
