The role of goal importance in predicting university students’ high academic performance
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2014
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We examined goal importance, focusing on high, but not exclusive priority goals, in the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to predict students’ academic performance. At the beginning of semester, students in a psychology subject (N = 197) completed TPB and goal importance items for achieving a high grade. Regression analyses revealed partial support for the TPB. Perceived behavioural control, but not attitude or subjective norm, significantly predicted intention, with intention predicting final grade. Goal importance significantly predicted intention, but not final grade, indicating that perceiving a performance goal as highly, but not necessarily exclusively, important impacts on students’ achievement intentions. |
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University of Newcastle * Faculty of Education |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/75742/1/75742.pdf http://www.newcastle.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/132843/V14_2_Kyle_et_al.pdf Kyle, Vanessa A., White, Katherine M., Hyde, Melissa K., & Occhipinti, Stefano (2014) The role of goal importance in predicting university students’ high academic performance. Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 14, pp. 17-28. |
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Copyright 2014 School of Education, Faculty of Education & Arts, University of Newcastle |
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Faculty of Health; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation; School of Psychology & Counselling |
Palavras-Chave | #170103 Educational Psychology #170113 Social and Community Psychology |
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Journal Article |