جهت گيري هدفي باورهاي هوشي و پيشرفت تحصيلي

ACHIEVEMENT, GOALS, INTELLIGENCE BELIEFS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Beliefs about intelligence influence academic behavior and permit others to predict them. Achievement goals are integrated patterns of beliefs, attributes and affects which orient the academic behavior and include different methods of approaching, engaging and reacting in achievement activity. The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between achievement goals (goal orientation) and beliefs about intelligence with academic achievemint. one hundred and twenty girls and boys in grades 6 and 9 were chosen. Beliefs about intelligence were evaluated by a semi - structured interview and goal orietation was measured by a questionnair. Results indicated that: a) while the majority of students with mastrey goal, have an incremental view of intelligance, the majority of students with an entity belief about intelligence have a performance goal orientated. b) beliefs about intelligence can predict goal orientation. c) performance goal predict low acadmic achievement. d) there was a negative relation between performance goal and entity view of intelligence with academic achievement. e) the belief that intelligence is malleable versus fixed was increased by age. f) In comparaison with girls, boys more frequently believe that intelligence has an interactional origin of nature an nurture.