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JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 99, Issue 2, Pages 241-252Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.99.2.241
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achievement goals; motivation for teaching; help seeking
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It was proposed that achievement goal theory can be applied to conceptualizing motivation not only for learning but also for teaching. As predicted, responses of 320 teachers to a new self-report measure of goal orientations for teaching yielded 4 factors reflecting distinct mastery, ability-approach, ability-avoidance, and work-avoidance goals. Data from 212 teachers who also completed measures of help seeking confirmed that mastery goals predicted positive perceptions of help seeking, preferences for receiving autonomous help, and frequency of help seeking; ability avoidance predicted negative perceptions and help avoidance; and work avoidance predicted expedient help seeking. Results validate the proposed structure and measure of teacher goal orientations and open new directions for research on teacher cognitions and behaviors, teachers' influences on students, and school influences on teachers.
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