Psychology Today

Goal Orientation, Task Difficulty and Task Interest: Effects on Setting Personal Goals

What factors influence the types of goals we set? Will I aim to excel or just get by? Of course, both person and situation variables interact in the process of goal setting. This recent study helps us ...
JSTOR Daily

Three Levels of Goal Orientation in Learning

Sixteen adult volunteers provided thinking-aloud protocols while undergoing a 10-hr individually administered course in BASIC (beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code) programming. Three ...
Psychology Today

On the Science of Goal-Orientation

It is roughly accurate to characterize the enterprise of science as explaining how one billiard ball strikes another and how that one ricochets into another, and so on. But when this approach is ...
Entrepreneur

The 7-Step Formula for Goal Setting

The following excerpt is from the Brian Tracy’s book Million Dollar Habits. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes | IndieBound Goal orientation is a way of thinking practiced by optimists ...
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Perceptions of parent goals and their contribution to student achievement goal orientation and engagement in the classroom: Grade-level differences across adolescence

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The aim of this study was twofold: (a) to examine student perceptions of their parent goals and their achievement goal orientations across ...