Goal Orientation and Decision-Making in Education

Author(s):  
Vibe Aarkrog ◽  
Bjarne Wahlgren
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 695-713
Author(s):  
Feifei Yang ◽  
Jiaqi Huang ◽  
Xiao Feng ◽  
Miles M. Yang

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the effects of goal orientation on understanding the dynamics of stocks and flows (SF). Design/methodology/approach The authors use the well-established department store task as the experimental task to evaluate people’s understanding of SF and implement a survey to assess different goal orientation levels. Ordinary least square is used to test the effects of goal orientations on the SF performance. Findings The findings suggest that learning goal orientation is positively associated with SF performance. However, prove and avoid performance goal orientation are unrelated to SF performance. Originality/value The study has important theoretical and practical contributions. From a theoretical perspective, the authors examine the impact of goal orientation in dynamic decision-making to advance the knowledge on the role of goal orientation. Practically, the research demonstrates that learning-goal-oriented people perform better in stock and flow tasks, suggesting that goal orientation is an important trait for recruiting organizational members whose work involves SF decision-making tasks.


2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 469-488
Author(s):  
Sunyoung Park ◽  
Su Yeong Park

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the role of mastery goal orientation, support for career development, career decision-making self-efficacy and engineering interest in career adaptability for engineering students. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 307 Korean engineering students from two universities. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze data and examine the relationships among the variables. Findings The results indicated that the level of mastery of goal orientation and support for career development significantly affected career decision-making self-efficacy. Engineering students’ career decision-making self-efficacy also positively influenced their engineering interests and career adaptability. Finally, the students’ engineering interest positively affected their career adaptability. Originality/value This study demonstrated that important factors for career planning and development need to be successively considered during the career choice process by linking it to career decision-making self-efficacy, engineering interest and career adaptability (career choice action), in consecutive order.


Author(s):  
Gary B. Peters

When we collaborate, there is an interaction between two or more individuals who are working together to achieve a particular goal. “Teachers who use collaborative approaches tend to think of themselves less as expert transmitters of knowledge to students, and more as expert designers of intellectual experiences for students, as coaches or mid-wives of a more emergent learning process” (Smith & McGregor, n.d., ¶ 1). In certain environments, collaboration may be more difficult to achieve; it does not occur by simply putting individuals together and asking them to work collectively (Galagher, Kraut, & Egido, 1990). Friend and Cook’s (1992) definition of collaboration emphasizes goal orientation: “Interpersonal collaboration is a style of direct interaction between at least two co-equal parties voluntarily engaged in shared decision making as they work toward a common goal” (p. 5). Collaboration is further defined as “a process through which parties who see different aspects of a problem [or issue] can constructively explore their differences and search for solutions that go beyond their own limited vision of that is possible” (Gray, 1989, p. 5).


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Yudi Yudiana

This study aims to determine the application of infaq and alms accounting based on PSAK 109 which focuses on the presentation of financial reports on DMC organs as a network of Dompet Dhuafa amil zakat institutions in the field of disasters which mostly manages infak/sedekah funds in its operations. This research is a qualitative study of critical discourse analysis, which is a method by collecting, preparing, and analyzing data in the form of organizational financial reports so that later it can provide a clear picture of the application of infak and sedekah accounting based on PSAK 109 in the DMC organ. The data processing method uses interviews with related documents and is accompanied by one of the validity of the data, namely triangulation. The results showed errors in understanding and applying the recording method will affect the decision making strategy and goal orientation of the non-profit organization. The role of the leader is the key to success in disseminating it, as well as setting it in the form of an Operating Procedure System.


2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Tory Higgins

Where does value come from? I propose a new answer to this classic question. People experience regulatory fit when the manner of their engagement in an activity sustains their goal orientation or interests regarding that activity. When there is fit, people engage more strongly in what they are doing and “feel right” about it. Fit influences the strength of value experiences—how good or how bad one feels about something—independently of the pleasure and pain experiences that are associated with outcomes. It uniquely contributes to people's experience of the value of things. Fit is shown to influence judgments and decision making, attitude and behavior change, and task performance.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
Dyan Widyaningrum ◽  
Thomas Dicky Hastjarjo

This study aimed to determine the effect of career guidance on the self-efficacy in career decision-making with mastery goal orientation as co-variables. The research design used quasi experiment consisting of two groups: the experimental group and the control group. The experimental group received treatment (career guidance). Self-efficacy in career decision-making was measured using the questionnaire of self-efficacy in career decision-making and mastery goal orientation was measured with a scale of mastery goal orientation. Career guidance module was administered to the experimental group. Subjects in this study amounted to 48 students a class XI of SMA X in Yogyakarta. Analysis of covariance was used to analyse the data and resulted in no relationship between mastery goal orientation and self-efficacy in career decision making (p>.05). Therefore the analysis turned to mixed anova resulting that there was the effects of the career guidance to self efficacy in career decision making (F=104.074; p<0.05).


Author(s):  
Alexander Soutschek ◽  
Alexandra Bagaïni ◽  
Todd A Hare ◽  
Philippe N Tobler

Abstract Motivation is a hallmark of healthy aging, but the motivation to engage in effortful behavior diminishes with increasing age. Most neurobiological accounts of altered motivation in older adults assume that these deficits are caused by a gradual decline in brain tissue, while some psychological theories posit a switch from gain orientation to loss avoidance in motivational goals. Here, we contribute to reconcile the psychological and neural perspectives by providing evidence that frontopolar cortex (FPC), a brain region involved in cost-benefit weighting, increasingly underpins effort avoidance rather than engagement with age. Using anodal transcranial direct current stimulation together with effort-reward trade-offs, we find that the FPC’s function in effort-based decisions remains focused on cost-benefit calculations but appears to switch from reward seeking to cost avoidance with increasing age. This is further evidenced by exploratory, independent analysis of structural brain changes, showing that the relationship between the density of frontopolar neural tissue and willingness to exert effort differs in young versus older adults. Our results inform aging-related models of decision making by providing preliminary evidence that, in addition to cortical thinning, changes in goal orientation need to be considered in order to understand alterations in decision making over the lifespan.


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