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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

Clear goal intentions

Overview

  • Influence: Clear goal intentions
  • Domain: Teaching Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: Learning intentions
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
  • Influence Definition: When students link clear goal intentions to "implementation intentions"—or plans to overcome expected obstacles—they are more likely to achieve their goals.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 7
  • Number of studies: 504
  • Number of students: 76,287
  • Number of effects: 613
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.44
  • Robustness index: 4

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Book Marzano, Gaddy, & Dean USA What Works in Classroom Instruction 2000 Goal specification 53 0 53 0.97
Journal of Applied Psychology Wood, Mento & Locke Australia Task complexity as a moderator of goal effects: a meta-analysis 1987 Goal specificity 53 6,635 53 0.43
Book Guler Turkey The Effect of Goal Orientation on Student Achievement 2017 Goal orientation 154 61,191 154 0.35
Journal of Applied Psychology Payne, Youngcourt, & Beaubien USA A meta-analytic examination of the goal orientation nomological net 2007 Learning goals 47 0 47 0.24
Journal of Special Education Fuchs & Fuchs USA Curriculum-Based Assessment of Progress Toward Long-Term and Short-Term Goals 1986 Long vs short term goals 18 0 96 0.64
Personality and Social Psychology Review Wood, Conner, Miles, Sandberg, Taylor, Godin, & Sheeran UK The impact of asking intention or self-prediction questions on subsequent behavior: a meta-analysis. 2016 Goal intentions on achievement 116 0 116 0.24
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology Gollwitzer & Sheeran USA Implementation Intentions and Goal Achievement: A Meta-Analysis of Effects and Processes 2006 Goal intentions on achievement 63 8,461 94 0.72
TOTAL/AVERAGE 504 76,287 613 0.51
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