Capacidad predictiva de las metas académicas sobre el rendimiento en diferentes áreas curriculares
- Valle Arias, Antonio 1
- Núñez Pérez, José Carlos 2
- González Cabanach, Ramón 1
- Rodríguez Martínez, Susana 1
- González-Pienda García, Julio Antonio 2
- Rosário, Pedro 3
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Universidade da Coruña
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Universidad de Oviedo
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Universidade do Minho
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ISSN: 0120-0534
Year of publication: 2008
Volume: 40
Issue: 1
Pages: 111-122
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología
Abstract
This study intends to analyze the various academic goals and their predictive power of the academic achievement in five different school subjects of Spanish core curriculum. In order to assess this, the Questionnaire of Academic Goals has been applied to a large sample of adolescents attending the four grade level years of Spanish Secondary Education (12 to 16 years). Data suggest that achievement is, firstly, explained, positive and significantly, by students� wish of acquiring competence and control as well as of obtaining a good future job and, secondly, negatively, by reasons strongly related to the preservation of one�s self-esteem. Some implications of this data to learning are discussed.