Prospective Teachers’ Achievement Goals, Learning Strategies And Engagement In Lessons: A Mediation Analysis

The purpose of the present study is twofold. First, it is to examine the relationships between prospective teachers’ achievement goals, learning strategies, and engagement in lessons; and second, it is to investigate the mediating roles of prospective teachers’ learning strategies in the relationships between their achievement goals and engagement in lessons. An explanatory correlational design was adopted in the study. A total of 312 prospective teachers participated voluntarily in the study. The results demonstrated that the prospective teachers’ achievement goals, learning strategies, and engagement in lessons were significantly related to each other. The results also showed that the relationships between the prospective teachers’ achievement goals and engagement in lessons were significantly mediated by their learning strategies. Implications for teacher education and directions for future studies were also discussed in the study