Student Personal Beliefs & Behaviors – Personal Goal Orientation: Performance Approach
- In math, doing better than other students is important to me.
- My goal in math is to look smarter than other students.
- One of my goals is to show others that math is easy for me.
- It’s important to me that others think I am good at doing math.
- My goal in math is to do better than other students.
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 |
.84 | 2.65 | 1.01 | .48 | |||
| High School |
5 |
.82 | 2.83 | 1.07 | .21 | |||
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| Total |
5 |
.84 | 2.56 | 1.04 | .38 | |||