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Six-week weekly goal-setting training package for academic performance

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Description

The intervention pattern consisted of eighty minutes of training and discussion once per week for six consecutive weeks, delivered in students' own classrooms, while the control group received no training until two weeks after the programme. Sessions covered the concept of goal-setting, skills and special abilities involved, setting motivating and SMART goals, setting goals in writing, making an action plan and sticking to it, and accepting feedback and rewards, using goal-setting strategies and worksheets.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Participants selected via baseline assessment; those scoring below 40 on the average of GSPI and ATEL totals deemed poor performers

Constraints

  • Delivered within intact classes in two public schools; to avoid contamination, students were treated in their various schools

Target Learners

  • Senior Secondary II students with poor baseline performance in English

Learning Goals

  • Improved English language performance through goal-setting skills

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Abe, Iyabo Idowu; Ilogu, Guy Chibuzoh; Madueke, Ify Louisa. (2014). Effects of goal-setting skills on students' academic performance in english language in Enugu Nigeria. New Approaches in Educational Research. https://doi.org/10.7821/naer.3.2.93-99
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title Six-week weekly goal-setting training package for academic performance
description The intervention pattern consisted of eighty minutes of training and discussion once per week for six consecutive weeks, delivered in students' own classrooms, while the control group received no training until two we...
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