Undergraduates? Achievement Goal Orientations, Academic Self-Efficacy and Hope as the Predictors of Their Learning Approaches

Makbule Kali Soyer () and Berke Kirikkanat ()
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Makbule Kali Soyer: Marmara University Atatürk Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Department of Guidance and Psychological Counseling
Berke Kirikkanat: Istanbul Commerce University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Educational Sciences

No 2804876, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: The aim of the present study was to figure out whether university students? learning approaches were shaped via their achievement goal orientations, academic self-efficacy and hope or not. The other objective was to examine if these psychological constructs varied in accordance with the demographic variables including gender, age and class level. 332 undergraduates from Marmara University and Istanbul Commerce University who were in the year of junior and senior participated in the study. The Achievement Goal Orientations Scale, the Academic Self-Efficacy Scale, the Dispositional Hope Scale and the Demographic Form were utilized to reveal the predictive power of these constructs on their learning attitudes measured by the Revised Two-Factor Study Process Questionnaire. Multiple linear regression analysis indicated that learning goal orientation was a pivotal predictor of both deep and surface approach to learning. Academic self-efficacy and hope were the crucial precursors of deep approach while performance-avoidance goal inclination was a considerable predictor of surface approach. Independent samples t-test analysis displayed that the female undergraduates were superior to the male ones in terms of the learning goal tendency. And the students (20 to 22 aged) demonstrated higher scores on the same variable than the other ones (23 to 25 aged). On the basis of class level, there were no significant differences in the scores of achievement goal orientations, academic self-efficacy, hope and learning approaches. The results pointed out the fact that such concepts pertinent to an undergraduate?s academic performance could be viewed as distinctive features engendering different learning attitudes toward scholastic training.

Keywords: Achievement goal orientation; academic self-efficacy; hope; learning approaches; undergraduates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2015-10
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 19th International Academic Conference, Florence, Oct 2015, pages 387-387

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