Mastery-approach, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals positively predict engagement, while mastery-avoidance goals do not, in AI-assisted English learning¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2026 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Mastery-approach (β = 0.312), performance-approach (β = 0.302), and performance-avoidance (β = 0.209) goals each significantly predicted engagement, whereas the mastery-avoidance path was not supported (β = 0.072, p = 0.056). → Yongliang Wang & Yaobo Wang 2026

Evidence¶

Yongliang Wang & Yaobo Wang 2026¶

Yongliang Wang & Yaobo Wang. (2026). Explaining learning engagement in AI-assisted learning through teacher support and achievement goals: insights from goal-setting theory. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 13:1215. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-07636-8

q2 · i? · associational · r2

SEM results (Table 3) show supported paths from mastery-approach (β = 0.312), performance-approach (β = 0.302), and performance-avoidance (β = 0.209) goals to engagement, all p < 0.001; the mastery-avoidance path (β = 0.072, p = 0.056) was unsupported, consistent with the article's statement that these three goal types "significantly predict learners' engagement".

"Mastery-approach, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals were all found to significantly predict learners' engagement in AI-assisted English learning."

Studies bearing on this claim¶

Do learners' achievement goal orientations (mastery or performance, approach or avoidance) predict their engagement and academic outcomes? This table gathers the studies behind this claim and the 3 narrower claims that bear on it: 3 distinct studies (3 associational), q2, 0 of 3 with an effect size coded. One row per study, codes as each entry records them; no effect is averaged and no verdict is drawn. Built by scripts/synthesize_claim.py from eval/synthesis/; a row that looks wrong is fixed on the claim it comes from.

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Achievement Goal Orientation — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

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