Social goals have also been proposed as important additions to mastery and performance goals in educational contexts, particularly in non-Western cultures but no study has yet tested the possibility that such goals can also combine with mastery and performance goals leading to superior learning outcomes. Longitudinal studies are also rare in this…

An investigation of study habits of 540 Australian college sophomores casts doubt on the validity of one model and suggests some adjustments in it. The relationship of study habits to subject area, age, and sex, and the model's usefulness in predicting academic achievement are examined. (MSE)

A Filipino study of the Biggs Study Process Questionnaire, which investigates relationships between study habits and personality characteristics and fields of study, found satisfactory internal consistency reliability and correlations with school grades but not IQ for two of the three scales, but did not support the creator's proposed structure.…

Student and teaching staff at the University of New England were surveyed by questionnaire to assess attitudes about the purposes of a college education, preferences for different learning modes, and views on student and faculty roles in decision-making related to the instructional process. (MLW)

This follow-up study of 275 university freshmen confirmed that the final secondary examination, the Higher School Certificate, is a moderately good predictor of university success. Of the other variables studied (satisfaction with university and various personality measures) only a study habits score contributed further to the prediction of…