Student Personal Beliefs & Behaviors – Personal Goal Orientation: Mastery Approach
- Learning a lot of new things is what is important to me in math.
- One of my main goals in math is to improve my skills.
- My main goal in math is to learn as much as I can.
- Really understanding my math work is important to me.
- Learning new skills in math is one of my goals.
It is recommended that these items be used on a 7-point scale that is anchored at the endpoints and in the middle with the following options: Not at all true for me (0), Somewhat true for me (3), and Very true for me (6).
Descriptive Statistics:
| Sample | Items | Alpha | Mean | Stan. Dev. | Skewness | |||
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| Middle School |
5 |
.87 | 3.59 | .95 | -.43 | |||
| High School |
5 |
.87 | 3.93 | .91 | -.86 | |||
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| Total |
5 |
.87 | 3.71 | .95 | -.56 | |||