Achieving motivation and approach
Overview
- Influence: Achieving motivation and approach
- Domain: Student
- Sub-Domain: Motivational approach/orientation
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
- Influence Definition: This motivation involves students being strategic in their motivation – choosing when to be surface and understand the knowledge, when to go deep and investigating relations, when to master and when to perform to the satisfaction of others (teachers, peers, family).
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 4
- Number of studies: 252
- Number of students: NA
- Number of effects: 257
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.44
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Journal of Education | Purdie & Hattie | The Relationship between Study Skills and Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis | 1999 | Achieving approach | 95 | NA | 95 | 0.70 | |
| Australian Journal of Education | Purdie & Hattie | The Relationship between Study Skills and Learning Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis | 1999 | Achieving motivation | 18 | NA | 18 | 0.18 | |
| Perspectives on Thinking, Learning and Cognitive Styles | Watkins | Correlates of Approaches to Learning: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis | 2001 | Achieving motivation | 55 | NA | 60 | 0.37 | |
| Journal of Educational Psychology | Huang | Discriminant and criterion-related validity of achievement goals in predicting academic achievement: A meta-analysis. | 2012 | Achieving motivation | 84 | NA | 84 | 0.26 | |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 252 | NA | 257 | 0.38 | |||||