Toward an Understanding of Goal Orientation in a Training Context

Toward an Understanding of Goal Orientation in a Training Context
Author: Kristin Boyle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 590
Release: 1994
Genre:
ISBN:

Abstract: The role of goal orientation in explaining the behavioral patterns that relate to learning in organizational training settings was investigated in a laboratory study. It was posited that individual differences and context factors separately and in interaction promote either adaptive or maladaptive patterns of cognition, affect, and behavior.

Step Into Student Goal Setting

Step Into Student Goal Setting
Author: Chase Nordengren
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2021-12-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071867067

This resource provides an action plan for understanding what a student knows and how to build from it. It shows teachers how to integrate formative assessment, student metacognition, and motivational strategies to make goal setting an integral instructional strategy. It weaves research and case studies with practical strategies to demonstrate how goal setting, with clear learning intentions and scaffolded teacher support, can lead to high learning growth and student agency.

Multi-Level Issues In Organizational Behavior And Leadership

Multi-Level Issues In Organizational Behavior And Leadership
Author: Francis J. Yammarino
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2009-05-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1848555032

Offers an outlet for the discussion of multi-level problems and solutions across a variety of fields of study. This title contains five major essays with commentaries and rebuttals that cover a range of topics, but in the realms of organizational behavior and leadership.

Handbook of Self-Regulation

Handbook of Self-Regulation
Author: Monique Boekaerts
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 814
Release: 2005-07-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0123695198

The Handbook of Self-Regulation represents state-of-the-art coverage of the latest theory, research, and developments in applications of self-regulation research. Chapters are of interest to psychologists interested in the development and operation of self-regulation as well as applications to health, organizational, clinical, and educational psychology.This book pulls together theory, research, and applications in the self-regulation domain and provides broad coverage of conceptual, methodological, and treatment issues. In view of the burgeoning interest and massive research on various aspects of self-regulation, the time seems ripe for this Handbook, aimed at reflecting the current state of the field. The goal is to provide researchers, students, and clinicians in the field with substantial state-of-the-art overviews, reviews, and reflections on the conceptual and methodological issues and complexities particular to self-regulation research. Coverage of state-of-the-art in self-regulation research from different perspectives Application of self-regulation research to health, clinical, organizational, and educational psychology Brings together in one volume research on self-regulation in different subdisciplines Most comprehensive and penetrating compendium of information on self-regulation from multi-disciplinary perspectives

Goals, Goal Structures, and Patterns of Adaptive Learning

Goals, Goal Structures, and Patterns of Adaptive Learning
Author: Carol Midgley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2014-04-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135646759

Conducted over a 7yr period & spawning many jrnl pub's, this vol. will summarize the many interconnected studies that were conducted, will frame each one in terms of the larger lit, & will emphasize their contrib's to motivational theory & educ. practice

New Developments in Goal Setting and Task Performance

New Developments in Goal Setting and Task Performance
Author: Edwin A. Locke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 690
Release: 2013-01-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136180958

This book concentrates on the last twenty years of research in the area of goal setting and performance at work. The editors and contributors believe goals affect action, and this volume has a lineup of international contributors who look at the recent theories and implications in this area for IO psychologists and human resource management academics and graduate students.