Goals and Perceived Ability: Impact on Student Valuing, Self-Regulation, and Persistence

Components of Motivation to Learn from a Psychological Perspective

“…if they use grades as feedback for how they can improve and learn more), then they will appreciate their accomplishments for their positive properties' (p.24). In fact, this coincides with Kroll and Ford (1992), Greene and Miller (1996), Miller et al (1993) and Meece et al (1988) regarding the discussion of goal orientation. The key lies with how students define their learning in the beginning because 'students' valuing of what they learn depends on their initial reasons for learning and the meaning they attach to their grades' (Covington, 2000, p.24).…”

“…They define it as the interest in learning and the purpose is to acquire and improve one's knowledge and skills. Miller, Behrens, Greene and Newman (1993) hold a similar belief and assert that learning goals are primarily concerned with acquiring new skills or improving their knowledge, even if it means making some errors along the way. These definitions show how learners strive to learn in order to acquire knowledge through the mastery of a particular task.…”

Exploring the Effects of a Mindfulness Program for Students of Secondary School

“…Other studies show that the higher a student's positive self-concept is, the better the conditions motivating study (anxiety, concentration and aptitude for school work) and the stronger study and deep-learning strategies used, which also makes positive self-concept favor the student's use of more cognitive learning strategies, thereby facilitating more profound, elaborate information processing (González-Pienda et al, 2002;Núñez et al, 1998). This active involvement in the learning process increases when the student feels selfcompetent believes in his own abilities and has high expectations for self-effectiveness (Millar, Behrens, & Greene, 1993). This also increases when tasks are evaluated and when he feels responsible for the learning goals, which improves his academic performance (Núñez, González-Pienda, García, González-Pumariega, & García, 1995).…”

Effect of Goal Setting Difficulty on Serving Success in Table Tennis and the Mediating Mechanism of Self-regulation

“…Latham and Locke (1991) described the self-regulatory effects of goal setting, and suggested that goal setting could be used as a self-regulatory technique. Based upon this suggestion, goal-setting has been used as a kind of self-regulatory intervention technique in some research (Fiske and Taylor, 1991;Gainforth et al, 2011;Kolovelonis et al, 2011;Miller et al, 1993). More importantly, VandeWalle et al (1999) found that the relationship between goal orientation and sales performance was fully mediated by self-regulation tactics.…”