The Study of the Relationship between the cognitive goal structures of the Classrooms with the University Students’ Personal mastery Goal Orientation

Subject Areas : Educational Psychology

Rahim Badri Gharghari ¹ , Javad Mesrabadi ² , Shahram vahedi ³

1 - استادیار گروه علوم تربیتی دانشگاه تبریز
2 - استادیار گروه علوم تربیتی دانشگاه تربیت معلم آذربایجان
3 - استادیار گروه علوم تربیتی دانشگاه تبریز

Received: 2016-04-09 Accepted : 2016-04-09 Published : 2010-07-23

Keywords: achievement goal orientation, mastery goal orientation, Classrooms’ goals structures,

Abstract :

This research was conducted to study the relationship between the classrooms goal structures and mastery goal orientation of university students. The subjects were 187 undergraduate students, including 73 males and 114 females, selected through ratio stratified sampling from Education, Social Science and Literature Departments of Azad Islamic Tabriz University. Data was gathered through survey of Blackborns’ Classroom Goal Structures and Bofard & etal.Academic Goal Orientation Questionnaire. The results showed that the interesting and motivated survey class homewoark was the most important predictive factor of students’ mastery goal orientation. In addition, it founded that 19% of the variance of mastery goal orientation was accounted by linear combination of motivated classhomework and mastery evaluation. Data have be analyzed by multiple regression (stepwise) and path analysis.

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