ERIC Number: EJ1123973
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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Epistemic Beliefs and Achievement Goal Orientations: Relations between Constructs versus Personal Profiles
Madjar, Nir; Weinstock, Michael; Kaplan, Avi
Journal of Educational Research, v110 n1 p32-49 2017
Research has found students' epistemic beliefs to predict their achievement goal orientations. Much of this research emerged from the dimensional approach of epistemic beliefs, which hypothesized a relationship between particular independent dimensions of epistemic beliefs with different achievement goals. Research in this approach has primarily applied a variable-centered approach to investigating these relations. The authors adopt an alternative conceptualization of epistemic beliefs, which considers epistemic beliefs and achievement goals as orthogonal to each other, and which favors a profile-centered approach to researching their relations. They hypothesized that while a variable-centered analysis would identify relations between epistemic beliefs and achievement goal orientations, a profile-centered analysis would demonstrate the independence of these psychological constructs. In three studies with high school students (ns = 256, 149, 250) the authors demonstrate that epistemic beliefs and achievement goals form different personal profiles that are differentially related to learning strategies.
Descriptors: Epistemology, Learning Strategies, Goal Orientation, Student Attitudes, Beliefs, Achievement Need, Junior High School Students, High School Students, Grade 7, Grade 9, Grade 11, Foreign Countries, Student Surveys, Mathematics, History, Questionnaires, Failure, Fear, Factor Analysis, Mastery Learning, Statistical Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Secondary Education; Middle Schools; High Schools; Grade 7; Elementary Education; Grade 9; Grade 11
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel
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