The Student Goals Exploration: Reliability and Concurrent Validity

This paper reports the reliability and concurrent validity of the Student Goals Exploration, a paper and pencil inventory that measures goals students bring to college and college courses. Reliabilities demonstrating internal consistency and correlations demonstrating concurrent validity with three...

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Published in:Educational and psychological measurement 1991-06, Vol.51 (2), p.413-422
Main Authors: Stark, Joan S., Bentley, Richard J., Lowther, Malcolm A., Shaw, Kathleen M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Biological and medical sciences
Colleges & universities
Educational psychology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Orientation. Evaluation
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Students
Tests
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Summary:This paper reports the reliability and concurrent validity of the Student Goals Exploration, a paper and pencil inventory that measures goals students bring to college and college courses. Reliabilities demonstrating internal consistency and correlations demonstrating concurrent validity with three existing scales (LOGO II, the Need for Cognition Scale, and the Goal Instability Scale) suggest that the SGE provides good indicators for (a) general college goals, (b) general academic orientations toward courses, (c) subject-specific goals in courses, (d) specific goal attributes, and (e) levels of student confidence in course success.
ISSN:0013-1644
1552-3888
DOI:10.1177/0013164491512015