ERIC Number: EJ1107940
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0973
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Achievement Goals during Middle Childhood: Individual Differences in Motivation and Social Adjustment
Wilson, Travis M.; Zheng, Chanjin; Lemoine, Katherine A.; Martin, Caroline P.; Tang, Yue
Journal of Experimental Education, v84 n4 p723-743 2016
Person-centered analyses of achievement goals have been scarce in studies of elementary school children. In this investigation, the authors examined the natural combinations of achievement goals (mastery, performance-approach, performance-avoidance) among 3rd grade students (N = 195) and how clusters differed in self-, teacher-, and peer-reported adjustment variables. Cluster analysis revealed four groups of students: mastery (above average in mastery goals, below average in performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals), multi-goal (above average in all three goals), avoidant (above average in performance-avoidance goals, below average in mastery and performance-approach goals), and low motivation (below average in all three goals). Clusters differed in self-reported academic self-efficacy and perceptions of teacher support, teacher-reported academic competence, and peer nominations of social status. Mastery students had the most adaptive profiles; low motivation, the least adaptive. Avoidant boys had more maladaptive profiles than avoidant girls.
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Individual Differences, Social Adjustment, Multivariate Analysis, Mastery Learning, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Questionnaires, Surveys, Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Measures (Individuals), Rating Scales, Correlation, Statistical Analysis, Case Studies, Children, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes, Likert Scales
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 3; Primary Education; Elementary Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Patterns of Adaptive Learning Survey; Student Teacher Relationship Scale
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