Putwain, DW and Sander, P (2016) Does the confidence of first-year undergraduate students change over time according to achievement goal profile? Studies in Higher Education, 41 (2). pp. 381-398. ISSN 0307-5079

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Abstract

© 2014 Society for Research into Higher Education. This study examined the changes in students' academic behavioural confidence over the course of their first year of academic study and whether changes differ by their achievement goal profile. Self-report data were collected from 434 participants in three waves: at the beginning of the first semester of their first year of undergraduate study, at the beginning of the second semester, and again at beginning of the second year of undergraduate study. At the outset of their studies the authors identified three clusters of achievement goal profiles which differentiated between students' confidence in attaining grades, independent study and discussing course material. By the beginning of the second year any dips in confidence had disappeared which the authors construe in a positive light. The clusters of achievement goals shown at the outset of the first year of academic study does not seem to show any differentiated lasting disadvantage or advantage to students' confidence.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Higher Education on 8th Jul 2014 available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2014.934803
Uncontrolled Keywords:	1301 Education Systems, 1303 Specialist Studies In Education
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Divisions:	Education
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Date Deposited:	21 Apr 2016 12:55
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2022 08:18
DOI or ID number:	10.1080/03075079.2014.934803
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/3499

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