Teachers' Influence on Goal Orientation: Exploring the Relationship between Eighth Graders' Goal Orientation, Their Emotional Development, Their Perceptions of Learning, and Their Teachers' Instructional Strategies

Explores how students' perceived learning relates to emotions, motivation, and goal orientation. Finds that students significantly reported more negative emotions than positive emotions, thus indicating that the emotions of the learner were more negative, the motivation was more extrinsic and t...

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Published in:Reading psychology 2003, Vol.24 (1), p.57
Main Authors: Nichols, William Dee, Jones, Jeanneine P, Hancock, Dawson R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Educational Strategies
Emotional Development
Goal Orientation
Grade 8
Middle Schools
Student Attitudes
Student Motivation
Teacher Influence
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Summary:Explores how students' perceived learning relates to emotions, motivation, and goal orientation. Finds that students significantly reported more negative emotions than positive emotions, thus indicating that the emotions of the learner were more negative, the motivation was more extrinsic and the goal orientation of the learners could be classified as more performance goal oriented than task goal oriented. (SG)
ISSN:0270-2711
DOI:10.1080/02702710308236