Goal commitment
Overview
- Influence: Goal commitment
- Domain: Teaching Strategies
- Sub-Domain: Learning intentions
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to accelerate
- Influence Definition: A person’s determination to achieve a particular goal is most important when the goal is both specific and difficult to accomplish. Students with higher goal commitment have been found to be more likely to invest time and energy in studying, and to use additional strategies to achieve deep knowledge of the subject under study. Students commit to self-set goals more readily than to assigned goals, and research has indicated that instructor involvement in goal setting increases goal commitment among students pursuing group or team projects.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 3
- Number of studies: 103
- Number of students: 2,360
- Number of effects: 112
- Effect size: 0.40
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 |
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Journal of Applied Psychology | Donovan & Radosevich | USA | The moderating role of goal commitment on the goal difficulty–performance relationship: A meta-analytic review and critical reanalysis. | 1998 | Goal commitment | 21 | 2,360 | 21 | 0.36 |
Journal of Applied Psychology | Klein, Wesson, Hollenbeck & Alge | USA | Goal commitment and the goal-setting process: conceptual clarification and empirical synthesis | 1999 | Goal commitment | 74 | 0 | 83 | 0.47 |
Unpublished Thesis | Miloslavic | USA | Regulatory Fit in Goal Pursuit: Implications for Goal Commitment, Goal Revision, and Academic Performance | 2011 | Goal commitment | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0.37 |
TOTAL/AVERAGE | 103 | 2,360 | 112 | 0.40 |
Confidence
The Confidence is the average of these four measures, each divided into five approximately equal groups and assigned a value from 1 to 5 based on the following criteria:
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Number of Meta-analyses
- 1 = 1
- 2 = 2–3
- 3 = 4–6
- 4 = 7–9
- 5 = 10+
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Number of Studies
- 1 = 1–10
- 2 = 11–50
- 3 = 51–200
- 4 = 201–400
- 5 = 400+
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Number of Students
- 1 = 1–2,500
- 2 = 2,501–10,000
- 3 = 10,000–20,000
- 4 = 20,000–100,000
- 5 = 100,001+
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Number of Effects
- 1 = 1–100
- 2 = 101–300
- 3 = 301–600
- 4 = 601–1,200
- 5 = 1,200+
Number of Meta-Analyses | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Overall Confidence | |
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Confidence Factor | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 |