Morning performance-avoidance goals predict same-day academic failure, though not robustly across sensitivity analyses¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i0 Performance-avoidance goals, but not performance-approach or mastery goals, predicted same-day academic failure (β = .086, a small standardized coefficient); this link was no longer significant in a sensitivity model with all random effects covariances estimated. → Neubauer 2022

Evidence¶

Neubauer 2022¶

Neubauer, A. B., Schmidt, A., Schmiedek, F., & Dirk, J. (2022). Dynamic Reciprocal Relations of Achievement Goals with Daily Experiences of Academic Success and Failure: An Ambulatory Assessment Study. https://osf.io/gfvja/?view_only=b87fe179cf134471948726cb0e482a80

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DSEM of 108 Grade 5 students' daily reports. Performance-avoidance goals significantly predicted same-day failure ("β = .086, [.023, .149]"); the other goals did not. The standardized coefficient is small (below d = 0.2 equivalent).

"In line with our second hypothesis, performance-avoidance goals, β = .086, [.023, .149], but not performance-approach goals, β = .050, [-.012, .112], and mastery goals, β = -.022, [-.088, .042], significantly predicted daily experiences of academic failure."

Neubauer 2022 (2)¶

Neubauer, A. B., Schmidt, A., Schmiedek, F., & Dirk, J. (2022). Dynamic Reciprocal Relations of Achievement Goals with Daily Experiences of Academic Success and Failure: An Ambulatory Assessment Study. https://osf.io/gfvja/?view_only=b87fe179cf134471948726cb0e482a80

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Sensitivity analysis (alternative Model 2 with covariances among all random effects) found the performance-avoidance-failure link no longer significant. The authors call the effect comparatively weak and advise cautious interpretation.

"Further, the link between performance-avoidance goals and same-day academic failure was no longer statistically significant either, β = .066 [-.006, .138]."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

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

Related Claims¶

• Daily academic failure predicts higher performance goals but not mastery goals the next morning — related
• Performance-approach and performance-avoidance goals were not meaningfully related to same-day academic success — related