Goal Orientation in Students With Learning Disabilities, Students With Behavioral Disorders, and Students With Low IQ Linked With School Achievement, Self-Estimation of Achievement, and School Anxiety

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Abstract

This study focuses on the goal orientation of students with and without special education needs (SEN) in inclusive schools. Participants were 111 students from Grade 7, 37 low-IQ students without any disabilities, 37 students with learning disability (LD) and 37 students with emotional or behavioral disorders (ED). The results showed that students without SEN scored significantly higher in mastery goal orientation and significantly lower in performance-avoidance orientation as well as lower work-avoidance orientation than students with LD or ED. Furthermore, results from regression analyses showed that SEN is constant an explaining variable for goal orientation and that group differences cannot be explained by other variables (achievement, self-estimation of achievement and school anxiety).

Author

• Susanne Schwab, University of Graz