Achievement goal orientation and the critical thinking disposition of college students across academic programmes

Poondej, Chanut; Koul, Ravinder; Sujivorakul, Chuchai

doi:10.1080/0309877x.2011.645463

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“…Results of the current study also indicated a significant relationship between critical thinking disposition and achievement goal orientation; similar results were reported by Azizi et al (15), Dehghani et al (32), and Poondej et al (33). Findings of some studies indicated that people with higher achievement goal orientation, benefit from extensive insights and use problem solving and critical thinking strategies to solve different problems.…”

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Critical Thinking Disposition in the First- and Last-Year Medical Students and its Association with Achievement Goal Orientation

Shakurnia

Baniasad

2018

Strides Dev Med Educ

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Background: Since medical students play an important role in public health system as well as the treatment of patients, the need for critical thinking in them is extensively felt. The current study aimed at evaluating the level of critical thinking disposition (CTD) in the first-and last-year medical students and its association with goal orientation in Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in 2016. Methods: The current cross sectional study used critical thinking disposition inventory (CTDI) developed by Rudd and Ricketts, and achievement goal questionnaire-revised (AGQ-R) developed by McGregor and Elliot to collect data. The questionnaires were distributed among 255 students of which 204 (80%) students completed them. Data were analyzed using t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: Of the 204 studied subjects, 104 were the first-year and 100 the last-year medical students. The mean age of the first and last year of medical students was 18.930.86 and 24.601.31 years, respectively. Moreover, 47 first-year and 66 last-year subjects were female. The mean score of CTD for the first-and last-year students were 69.82 ± 10.60 and 71.48 ± 11.86, respectively, lower than the average range. Based on the t-test results, there was no significant difference between this group students (P = 0.310). The mean score of CTD and AGQ for all the study participants was 70.75 ± 11.12 and 28.22 ± 7.76, respectively; a significant correlation was observed between critical thinking disposition and achievement goal orientation (P = 0.001, r = 0.294). Conclusions: The results of the current study indicated that the CTD score was lower than average range in the first-and last-year students; besides, lack of difference between first and last year students emphasized that educational processes should be propelled toward employment of approaches to promote and strengthen critical thinking disposition.

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Critical Thinking Disposition in the First- and Last-Year Medical Students and its Association with Achievement Goal Orientation

Shakurnia

Baniasad

2018

Strides Dev Med Educ

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“…There have been studies that argue performance goals are oriented towards maladaptive learning behaviours. These studies have documented that performance goals are accompanied by work avoidance, undermine intrinsic motivation and are deleterious to students' deep involvement and subsequently, their performance (Poondej, Koul, & Sujivorakul, 2013;Remedios, Kisaleva, & Elliot, 2008). However, recent studies have denied allegations against performance goals.…”

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Antecedents of Intrinsic Motivation, Metacognition and Their Effects on Students’ Academic Performance in Fundamental Knowledge for Matriculation Courses

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Baharun²,

Harun³

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“…The last section of the survey assessed the level of taking deep approaches to learning with six items (for example, "I work on several examples of the same type of problems so that I understand the problems better"). The motivational goal orientation items were adapted from previous achievement goal orientation surveys (for example, Elliot & McGregor, 2001;Poondej, Koul, & Sujivorakul, 2012). The perceptions of GE classroom learning environment items were adapted from classroom learning environment surveys developed by previous researchers .…”

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Relationship between motivational goal orientations, perceptions of general education classroom learning environment, and deep approaches to learning

Poondej

Lerdpornkulrat

2016

Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences

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Keywords: classroom learning environment deep approaches to learning motivational goal orientations a b s t r a c t Researchers have reported empirical evidence that the deep approaches to learning account for significant successful learning. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between students' motivational goal orientation, their perceptions of the general education classroom learning environment, and deep approaches to learning strategies. Participants (N ¼ 494) were first-and second-year college students enrolled in any of the general education courses in higher education in Thailand. All samples were chosen using the convenience sampling technique. They completed a self-report questionnaire for measuring motivational goal orientation, perceptions of classroom learning environment, and the level of taking deep approaches to learning. To analyze the relationship between several independent variables and a dependent variable, multiple regression analyses were used and a positive influence was found of motivational goal orientation and perceptions of general education classroom learning environment on the level of taking deep approaches to learning. These results suggest promoting the deep approaches to learning by students through their individual personal attributes and classroom learning environment factors.

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Achievement goal orientation and the critical thinking disposition of college students across academic programmes

Cited by 12 publications

References 26 publications

Critical Thinking Disposition in the First- and Last-Year Medical Students and its Association with Achievement Goal Orientation

Critical Thinking Disposition in the First- and Last-Year Medical Students and its Association with Achievement Goal Orientation

Antecedents of Intrinsic Motivation, Metacognition and Their Effects on Students’ Academic Performance in Fundamental Knowledge for Matriculation Courses

Relationship between motivational goal orientations, perceptions of general education classroom learning environment, and deep approaches to learning

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