Ali Khodaei; Seyed Meysam Seyed Ahmadi; Hassan Gharibi
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This study examined the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between goal orientations and academic cheating among university students. In this correlational study, 200 university students (100 male and 100 female) responded to the Achievement Goal Questionnaire-Revised (AGQ-R, Elliot & ...
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This study examined the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between goal orientations and academic cheating among university students. In this correlational study, 200 university students (100 male and 100 female) responded to the Achievement Goal Questionnaire-Revised (AGQ-R, Elliot & Murayama, 2008) and the Academic Cheating Scale (ACS, Farnese, Tramontano, Fida & Paciello, 2011). Multi-group structural equation modeling was used to assess the causal model of gender-moderating effects on the relationship between goal orientations and academic cheating among university students. Results indicated that for total sample and for male and female university students, the relationship between mastery-approach goal orientations with academic cheating was negative and significant and the relationship between mastery-avoidance-goal orientation, performance-approach goal orientation and performance-avoidance goal orientation with academic cheating was negative and significant. In addition, the results of group assignment of causal relationships between variables showed that the relationships between goal orientations and academic cheating in two groups of male and female students were equivalent. Finally, the results showed that in the supposed causal models, 20% and 14% of the variance of academic cheating scores were explained through goal orientations in male and female students, respectively. In sum, the results of the present study, while supporting the conceptual positions of the achievement goal theory in explaining the motivational construct of academic cheating, showed that the functional characteristics of the motivational construct of goal orientations in predicting academic cheating behaviors in male and female university students were similar.
Hojjat Mahdavi rad; valiollah farzad; Shirin Kooshki
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The purpose of the present study was to explanation the model of academic performance based on academic motivation, achievement goals and academic self-efficacy with the mediation of academic engagement of secondary school students in Tehran city. The research was practical and the method was correlational ...
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The purpose of the present study was to explanation the model of academic performance based on academic motivation, achievement goals and academic self-efficacy with the mediation of academic engagement of secondary school students in Tehran city. The research was practical and the method was correlational with structural equation modeling. The statistical population was all second-grade students, who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling(470). The research instruments were the Miguel et al. Achievement goals Questionnaire, Wallarand et al. academic Motivation Questionnaire, Morris academic Self-Efficacy Questionnaire, and Pintrich et al. the Motivation Strategy Questionnaire for learning. The data were analyzed using correlational methods and structural equation modeling. The results showed that model of research variables had a favorable fit. In the assumed model, academic motivation with academic performance is mediated by academic engagement, has a complete effect and direct effect and indirect effect is non-significant. The goals of progress with academic performance with the mediation of academic engagement had a complete and direct effect and a non-significant indirect effect. The effect of academic self-efficacy with academic performance with the mediation of academic engagement had a complete effect and a significant direct effect, but the indirect effect is not significant. The effect of academic self-efficacy was significant with academic performance at the 5% level. The results showed that the variable of self-efficacy has a significant effect on academic performance and can explain 35% of the variance of academic performance.
masumeh bagherpur
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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between smart schools' performance and the goals of academic achievement with mediating role of academic vitality of high school students in Golestan province. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population ...
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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between smart schools' performance and the goals of academic achievement with mediating role of academic vitality of high school students in Golestan province. The research method is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of the present study is all high school students of smart schools in Golestan province. 378 students were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Data collection tools included: a) Midgley et al. Achievement Goals Questionnaire (1998), b) Hosein Chari and Dehghanizadeh Academic Standardization Questionnaire (1391) and c) Jafari Hajati Smart Schools Performance Questionnaire (1385). Descriptive statistics methods (concentration criteria, dispersion criteria and frequency tables with associated graphs) were used for data analysis. Then, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used to evaluate and test the hypotheses based on the obtained results. LISREL software was used to analyze the direct and indirect relationship between research variables in the final research model. The results indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between the efficiency of smart schools and the achievement goals. There is a significant relationship between academic vitality and smart school performance. And the components of smart school goals and material and human resources have the highest regression impact in predicting progress goals.
Ahmad Rastegar
Volume 4, Issue 14 , November 2016, , Pages 81-91
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This research was done with the aim of preparing a causal model of the relationship between intelligence beliefs and information technology acceptance with regard to the mediating role of achievement goals, computer anxiety, and computer self-efficacy among Shiraz Payame Noor University students using ...
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This research was done with the aim of preparing a causal model of the relationship between intelligence beliefs and information technology acceptance with regard to the mediating role of achievement goals, computer anxiety, and computer self-efficacy among Shiraz Payame Noor University students using path analysis. For doing so, 375 students from Shiraz Payame Noor University were selected through multistage cluster sampling and answered to a questionnaire consisted of intelligence beliefs, achievement goals, computer anxiety, computer self-efficacy, and technology acceptance scales. The results generally indicated that incremental intelligence beliefs affects technology acceptance indirectly and positively via the mediation of mastery goals, computer anxiety, and computer self-efficacy. Entity intelligence beliefs had indirect negative effects on technology acceptance via the mediation of performance-avoidance goals, performance-approach goals, and computer anxiety. Moreover, the results showed that the explained variance for technology acceptance is 36 percent in the fitted model.
Ahmad Rastegar; MohammadHasan seif; Saeid Talebi
Volume 2, Issue 5 , July 2015, , Pages 55-68
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The present study was done with the aim of presenting a model for predicting computer anxiety of Fars province Payame Noor University students based on Dweck’s cognitive-social approach regarding intelligence beliefs and goal orientations through path analysis. To do this, 523 students (320 female ...
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The present study was done with the aim of presenting a model for predicting computer anxiety of Fars province Payame Noor University students based on Dweck’s cognitive-social approach regarding intelligence beliefs and goal orientations through path analysis. To do this, 523 students (320 female and 203 male) were selected through multistage cluster and stratified ratio sampling and answered to a questionnaire composed of intelligence beliefs, achievement goals and computer anxiety subscales. Results showed that entity intelligence beliefs have indirect positive effect on computer anxiety through the mediation of performance-avoidance and performance-approach goals. Incremental intelligence beliefs have indirect and negative effect on computer anxiety through the mediation of mastery goals. Moreover, the goodness of fit indices of the fitted model for predicting computer anxiety provided empirical support for application of Dweck’s cognitive-social approach in an instructional context different from the instructional traditional one.
narges khaton zabihi hesari; masoud gholamali lavasani
Volume 1, Issue 4 , April 2014, , Pages 9-17
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The present study investigated the relationship between implicit theory of intelligence, self-efficacy and achievement goals (mastery achievement and Performance- Approach achievement goals) .this study is a correlation study. For this purpose from college student of Torbat Heidariye ...
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The present study investigated the relationship between implicit theory of intelligence, self-efficacy and achievement goals (mastery achievement and Performance- Approach achievement goals) .this study is a correlation study. For this purpose from college student of Torbat Heidariye Payame Noor University (N=4000) 400 college students who were studying in humane and basic science were chosen by multistage cluster sampling. Three questionnaires were used: intelligence beliefs questionnaire, achievement goals scale and self-efficacy beliefs questionnaire. In the current study we obtained a reliability estimate (Cronbach’s α) of 0/95, 0.97, 0/92, 0/70 and 0/93 orderly for entity beliefs of intelligence, incremental beliefs of intelligence, mastery achievement goals, Performance achievement goals and self-efficacy. The data was been analyzed by using path analysis. The results showed that straight causal effect of entity beliefs of intelligence on performance achievement goals was positive and on self-efficacy beliefs was negative, straight causal effect of performance achievement goals on self-efficacy was negative. also straight causal effect of incremental beliefs of intelligence on mastery achievement goals and self-efficacy beliefs was positive, additionally causal effect of mastery achievement goals on self-efficacy was positive. The result also demonstrated that about 0/15 of self-efficacy beliefs variance has been interpreted by entity beliefs of intelligence and performance achievement goals and about 0/23 of its variance has been interpreted by incre-mental beliefs of intelligence and mastery achievement goals. In general, data suggested that incremental beliefs of intelligence have a positive influence on self-efficacy beliefs through the mediating role of mastery achievement goals.
saeid mazlomian; ahmad rastegar; mohammad hasan seif; reza ghorban jahromi
Volume 1, Issue 4 , April 2014, , Pages 42-54
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The present study aimed at investigating the mediating role of motivational beliefs (i.e., task value, academic self-efficacy, and achievement goals) and cognitive engagement in the relationship between previous and current academic achievement. To do so, 473 (305 female and 168 male) undergraduate ...
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The present study aimed at investigating the mediating role of motivational beliefs (i.e., task value, academic self-efficacy, and achievement goals) and cognitive engagement in the relationship between previous and current academic achievement. To do so, 473 (305 female and 168 male) undergraduate students from Fars Province Payame Noor University were chosen through multi-stage cluster sampling and completed a self-report questionnaire consisted of task value, academic self-efficacy, achievement goals, and learning strategies. The students' final academic GPA was used as indicator of current academic achievement and their GPA in the last semester was used as indicator of previous academic achievement. The results generally indicated that task value, academic self-efficacy, and achiev-ement goals have indirect effect on mathematics achievement through the mediatory role of superficial and deep learning strategies. Moreover, students’ previous academic achievement had both direct and indirect effect on mathematics achievement. In discussion and result sector , we will talk about findings in more detail.
