Assessment of learning goals in university students from the perspective of 'person-situation interaction': the Situated Goals Questionnaire (SGQ-U) / Evaluación de las metas de aprendizaje en estudiantes universitarios desde la perspectiva de la 'interacción persona-situación': el Cuestionario de Metas Situadas (CMS-U)

Jesús Alonso-Tapia, Carmen Nieto, Enrique Merino-Tejedor, Juan A. Huertas, Miguel Ruiz
2018 Estudios de Psicología  
Esta es la versión de autor del artículo publicado en: This is an author produced version of a paper published in: Estudios en Psicología / Studies in Psychology 39. El acceso a la versión del editor puede requerir la suscripción del recurso Access to the published version may require subscription Assessment of learning goals in university students from the perspective of "person-situation interaction Abstract Academic behaviour takes place in a context in which the nature of class activities
more » ... d interactions can influence the student's motivation to learn. So, in order to study this influence, it is necessary to assess not only the personal variables that can motivate academic behaviour, but also the degree to which students are sensitive to different situational or task characteristics. In this case, the interaction person-situation is analysed using a new tool, the "situated-goal questionnaire" for university students. Data of 770 students were analysed using confirmatory techniques, as well as Anova and regression techniques. According to results, the questionnaire has good psychometric characteristics. Besides, they sowed the effect of the kinds of situation on the degree in which students declare to pursue different goals, as suggested by the person/situation interaction model, as well as the validity of both, goals and sensitivity to situations for predicting engagement and self-estimated mean-grade.
doi:10.1080/02109395.2017.1412707 fatcat:ovthm5w53vhevirgf5exzpbpba