Motivating adolescents: What goals are important to Australian
students? Mansfield, C.F. (2010) Motivating adolescents: What
goals are important to Australian students? Australian Journal
of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 10 . pp. 44-55. |PDF
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motivation during adolescence has become an increasingly
important issue for educators and researchers. Using a goal
theory perspective, researchers have investigated a range of
goals (including achievement goals, social goals and future
goals) that influence students’ desire to achieve at school. The
present study examines the range of goals pursued by adolescents
(N=195) from two secondary schools and investigates the
achievement goals that are important to their motivation. The
results show that future goals have a critical impact on
students’ motivation and that students pursue multiple and
related goals in learning situations. Implications for future
research are discussed. |Publication Type:||Journal