Goal orientations, study strategies and achievement of Hong Kong teacher education student

Goal orientations, study strategies and achievement of Hong Kong teacher education student

AARE 2004 Conference Papers

• Chan, Kwok Wai Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Leung, Man Tak Hong Kong Institute of Education
• Lai, Po Yin Hong Kong Institute of Education

• Jeffrey, P. L.

Melbourne

Australian Association for Research in Education

2005

Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE). Conference (2004: Melbourne Vic)

• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment
• C Psychology & Learning

Achievement Need Goal Orientation Learning Performance Student Teachers Study Success Higher Education Questionnaires Student Surveys Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This study examined the interrelationship among achievement goals, study strategies and achievement of 473 students in a Hong Kong tertiary institution by means of questionnaire survey. Correlational analyses showed that performance goal was significantly and positively related to both surface and deep strategies while learning goal was significantly and positively related to deep strategy but negatively related to surface strategy. However there was no significant relation between achievement and goals or achievement and study strategies held by the sample. The results validated the applicability of an adapted instrument developed in western countries to measure achievement goal orientations in the Hong Kong context. It also gave support to the western findings that students who hold learning goals usually adopt a deep approach of study while students who are performance goal orientated tend to be shallow in study approach. Nevertheless, it was interesting to find that achievement was not significantly related to either the goals or study strategies held by students in the sample. The results were in contrast to the usual assumption that students who are performance goal oriented and adopt shallow approach in study would score low in academic achievement. Further investigation would be necessary to verify the effects of these variables on achievement of students.
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• English

Conference Papers

• 13249320 (CD ROM)
• 13249339 (eISSN)

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2010-11-25