The Different Roles of Students’ Three Levels of Goal-Orientations in Predicting Evaluation of Group Work

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Abstract

The purpose of the study was to explore how the three levels of trichotomous achievement goal orientations - individual, individual-within-a-group, and group (Authors, 2011) that college students adopted in a cooperative learning context predict their evaluation of their group work process, their sense of group community, and their positive and negative emotions. Even though the correlation coefficients between the three different levels of the students’ goal orientations were low to medium high, the proposed three levels of trichotonomous achievement goal orientations played somewhat different roles in predicting various outcome variables in a cooperative learning context.

Authors

• Jung-In Kim, University of Colorado - Denver

• Hyewon Chung, Chungnam National University

• Myoungsook Kim, Dallas Independent School District

• Marilla D. Svinicki, The University of Texas - Austin