2. Goals
• A goal is something we work towards
• We all have goals
3. Goal Orientation
• A psychological construct that looks to
understand the attitudes and behaviours
that people embrace to reach their goals.
• It’s a mental framework that describes what
motivates people to perform certain tasks,
and what they aim to achieve in those tasks.
4. Dweck’s Orientations
• Performance Oriented
• Approach tasks with the aim of gaining
approval from peers and teachers
• Learning Oriented
• Approach tasks with the aim of mastering
or acquiring new skills
5. Performance
Orientation
• Desire a high level of performance
• Seek positive reinforcement and feedback
• Tend not to put much effort in unless being
evaluated.
• Tend to avoid tasks where they may be
poorly evaluated.
6. Learning Orientation
• Attention is focused towards self
improvement.
• Seek feedback on tasks to evaluate current
performance.
• Focus on skill and knowledge acquisition.
• Less concerned with being seen to err.
7. Achievement
• Utman, C. H. (1997) did a meta-analysis of
previous studies.
• Found the learning goals lead to better task
performance.
• Learning orientation leads to more time
being spent on challenging tasks.
9. People shift
• as they age, people tend to shift towards
performance orientation
10. Self-Awareness
• Think about what motivates you
• ask yourself:
“am I doing this to learn, or to
demonstrate something”
• don’t just do the minimum
• do all of the optional extras
• work at home!
Hinweis der Redaktion
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example from 1st year students - not wanting to look dumb\n
Brian’s unity labs - do you just want to finish and leave? or...\ndo you understand ifs... loops... functions...\n\ndo you ‘get it’?\n\ncould you explain WHY to someone else/\n
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Elliot & Dweck - found learning oriented children chose to participate in a challenging task - even if there was the possibility of making errors in public.Archer found similar results in college students.Very +ve correlations betwen learning orientation & their choice of a difficult - also very strong -ve orrelation between LO and choice of easy task.\n\n
1st and 2nd year don’t contribute towards degree\nso focus on skills!\n
exams and races - we all want to perform\n\nindustry wants portfolio! we want skills!\n