Beyond grades: GPA and its relationship to achievement goal orientations and student approaches to learning

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Beyond grades: GPA and its relationship to achievement goal orientations and student approaches to learning

Original language description

The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of university-level GPA to achievement goal orientations and student approaches to learning. Self-reported data were collected from 124 second-year students enrolled in the Specialization in Pedagogy study program at the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia in the Czech Republic. The results of the correlational analysis showed GPA being weakly yet non-significantly associated with mastery goal orientation and with the achieving approach. Contrary to prevailing evidence, GPA was virtually unassociated with performance goal orientations. This rather unusual finding is discussed in the context of the specific social environment of the particular institution. The findings indicate that correlates of GPA do not contradict the motivational attributes of the social construct of excellent students.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

GRANT Journal

ISSN

1805-062X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

49-54

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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