Classroom Goal Structure, Achievement Goals, and Achievement: A Multilevel Mediational Analysis of Longitudinal Data
Wenshu Luo & David HoganThis longitudinal study examines the mediational role of achievement goals between previous achievement, gender, and classroom goal structure, on the one hand, and subsequent achievement, on the other. Secondary students from 115 math classes in Singapore participated in this study. Multilevel path analyses showed that at the class level, mastery classroom goal structure predicted subsequent performance through mastery approach goals, and classes with higher previous achievement and with more girls had higher subsequent performance through lower performance avoidance goals. At the student level, previous achievement predicted mastery approach goals, which in turn predicted subsequent achievement.