scholarly journals Reconsidering the Use of the Mindset Assessment Profile in Educational Contexts

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Alexander P. Burgoyne ◽  
Brooke N. Macnamara
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Implicit Theories ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Theories Of Intelligence ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Cognition And Learning ◽  
And Performance

The Mindset Assessment Profile is a popular questionnaire purportedly designed to measure mindset—an individual’s belief in whether intelligence is malleable or stable. Despite its widespread use, the questionnaire appears to assess an individual’s need for cognition and goal orientation more than mindset. We assessed the reliability, construct validity, and factor structure of the Mindset Assessment Profile in a sample of 992 undergraduates. The reliability of the Mindset Assessment Profile was questionable (α = .63) and significantly lower than the reliability of the Implicit Theories of Intelligence Questionnaire (α = .94), an established measure of mindset. The Mindset Assessment Profile also lacked convergent and discriminant validity. Overall scores on the Mindset Assessment Profile correlated significantly more strongly with need for cognition than with mindset. Item-level analyses supported this finding: most items correlated weakly or not at all with mindset, and correlated significantly more strongly with need for cognition and learning goal orientation. Exploratory factor analysis indicated that three factors were underlying scores on the Mindset Assessment Profile: need for cognition, mindset, and performance goal orientation. Based on its questionable reliability and poor construct validity, we do not recommend that researchers and educators use the Mindset Assessment Profile to measure mindset.

scholarly journals The Reliability and Validity of the Mindset Assessment Profile Tool

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander P. Burgoyne ◽  
Brooke N Macnamara
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Implicit Theories ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Need For Cognition ◽  
Implicit Theories Of Intelligence ◽  
Theories Of Intelligence ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Item Level ◽  
Cognition And Learning

The Mindset Assessment Profile Tool is an 8-item questionnaire developed by the company Mindset Works, Inc. to measure mindset. We assessed the reliability, construct validity, and factor structure of the Mindset Assessment Profile in a sample of 992 undergraduates. The reliability of the Mindset Assessment Profile (α = .63) was considerably lower than that of the Implicit Theories of Intelligence Questionnaire (α = .94), an established measure of mindset. The Mindset Assessment Profile also lacked convergent and discriminant construct validity. Overall scores on the Mindset Assessment Profile correlated more strongly with need for cognition than with mindset. Item-level analyses supported this finding, revealing that six of the eight items in the Mindset Assessment Profile correlated more strongly with need for cognition and learning goal orientation than with mindset. Furthermore, two of the eight items did not correlate significantly with mindset (rs of -.01). Exploratory factor analysis indicated that three factors were underlying scores on the Mindset Assessment Profile. Based on these results, we do not recommend that researchers and educators use the Mindset Assessment Profile to measure mindset.

Effectuation (EF) and Causation (CS) on Venture Performance and Entrepreneurs’ Dispositions Affecting the Reliance on EF and CS

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jang Hyo Yoon ◽  
Erin Cho
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Average Growth ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Subjective Assessments ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
And Performance

Abstract This study investigates whether and how different decision logics (i.e., effectuation and causation) are linked to venture performance (i.e., annual average growth in revenue and profit as well as subjective assessments of venture performance and funding status). We also examine how dispositional characteristics of an entrepreneur (i.e., learning and performance goal orientations, ambiguity tolerance, desire for change, and locus of control) influence the use of different decision logics. The results indicate that causation has a significantly positive effect on revenue growth as well as subjective assessments of venture performance and funding status, while effectuation has a significantly negative effect on profit growth. We find that learning-goal orientation leads to a greater reliance on effectuation, while performance-goal orientation increases the use of causation. An internal locus of control positively affects the reliance on both effectuation and causation, while the desire for change increases the use of effectuation.

scholarly journals The Effect of Teaching Quality on Student Career Choice: The Mediating Role of Student Goal Orientation

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuatul Mahfud ◽  
Setyabudi Indartono ◽  
Ida Nugroho Saputro ◽  
Indah Utari
Keyword(s):  
Career Choice ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Vocational Students ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Quality Learning ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

Introduction. Career choice is an essential stage for vocational students to identify suitability, readiness, and development of the capacity to work. However, until now, studies that discuss how vocational learning can shape students’ career choices are still limited and not yet widely discussed. This study aims to develop structural models to shape the maturity of student career choices, which involves teaching quality, learning goal orientation, and performance goal orientation in collaboratively and interactively. Specifically, this study aims to investigate the effects of teaching quality, learning goal orientation, and performance goal orientation on career choice. Also, it will help to examine the role of mediation for the student’s goal orientation under the influence of teaching quality. Materials and Methods. Data were collected randomly through an online questionnaire survey from 289 vocational students in the tourism field in Indonesia which included the culinary art and hospitality department. SEM analysis is used to test the path model and bootstrapping confidence interval estimate to test the mediation role. Results. This study revealed that teaching quality, learning goal orientation, and performance goal orientation are collaborative and interactive predictors of career choice of vocational students. Also, the learning goal orientation and performance goal orientation significantly mediate the effect of teaching quality on student career choices, and this mediation is partial. Discussion and Conclusion.This study also reinforces the theory that the success of achieving the learning outcome is significantly affected by external (e.g., teaching quality) and internal dimension (e.g., student goal orientation). Finally, it is recommended that vocational education practitioners should improve the quality of learning and teaching process by encouraging positiv e student goal orientation.

scholarly journals Peran Pernyataan Orientasi Tujuan Kinerja dan Pernyataan Orientasi Tujuan Pembelajaran terhadap Kemampuan Mahasiswa

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Ahmad Muzaki ◽  
Dyah Probowulan ◽  
Achmad Syahfrudin
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Test Performance ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Orientation State ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

Objective orientation is a mental framework as individuals give an impression and respond to situations or events that they face. Typically there are two kinds of goal orientation, namely orientation of performance goals (performance orientation) and orientation of learning goals (learning goal orientation). The phenomenon that there are still students who are extension or extension of time in doing the Final Project are all caused by the ability possessed by the individual. There are three factors that underlie the ability; self-efficacy, goals and performance. The researcher followed up the existence problems in the 2015 Accounting Study Program with four samples of Higher Education in Jember Regency, there were 82 respondents to answer the questionnaire given. Therefore an analytical tool is needed to determine the abilities possessed by students of the Accounting Study Program in Jember Regency. In this study researchers will test performance goal orientation statements (state performance goal orientation) and statement of learning goal orientation (state learning goal orientation) on self-efficacy (self-efficacy), goals (goals) and performance (performance) that each individual has. Keywords:  Goal Orientation, State Goal Orientation Learning, State Performance Goal Orientation, Self-Efficacy, Goals and  Performance.

Relationships among Alcohol Consumption, Drug Use, and Goal Orientation among College Students in the Southeastern USA

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 411-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheryl R. Ginn
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Higher Alcohol ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
And Performance

Students attending 2 different universities completed a Goals Inventory as well as a self-report survey designed to address their use of alcohol and other drugs. University 1 was a large, public state-supported school that did not restrict alcohol use. From this university were 30 male and 77 female students who ranged in age from 18–25 years ( M = 20 yr.). University 2 was a small, private church-affiliated school that enforced a no-alcohol-on-campus policy. This sample included 41 male and 50 female students, whose ages ranged from 18–24 years ( M = 19 yr.). More than half of the sample at each school had consumed alcohol at some time. While men drank more than women at University 1, the sex-ratio at University 2 was not different. Students at University 2 had higher learning and performance goal scores, alcohol-use scores, and drug-abuse scores than those at University 1. Students at University 2 had higher alcohol-abuse scores. Learning goal orientation was inversely related to alcohol-abuse behaviors but only at University 1. General alcohol use was inversely related to learning goal orientation at University 2. Students at both universities reported drinking to relieve tension. Those with a learning goal orientation were reportedly not drinking excessive amounts of alcohol. However, the relationship between alcohol use and abuse and performance is unclear because students had high performance scores at both universities along with high alcohol-use scores.

scholarly journals Learning Orientation, Working Smart, and Effective Selling

1994 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harish Sujan ◽  
Barton A. Weitz ◽  
Nirmalya Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Learning Orientation ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Motivational Orientations ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

Learning and performance goal orientations, two motivational orientations that guide salespeople's behavior, are related to working smart and hard. Working smart is defined as the engagement in activities that serve to develop knowledge of sales situations and utilize this knowledge in selling behavior. It is found that a learning goal orientation motivates working both smart and hard, whereas a performance goal orientation motivates only working hard. The goal orientations also are found to be alterable through supervisory feedback. Furthermore, self-efficacy, salespeople's confidence in their overall selling abilities, is found to moderate some of the relationships with the goal orientations.

scholarly journals Goal orientation and performance adaptation: A meta-analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukasz Stasielowicz
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Subjective Ratings ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Meta Analyses ◽  
Performance Adaptation ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

The relationship between goal orientation and performance adaptation across studies was assessed in the present article. The relevance of performance adaptation can be exemplified by the desire to optimize performance and mitigate the negative effects of change in organizational and educational contexts (i.e. new co-workers, new software, emergencies). Three-level meta-analyses were conducted for learning goal orientation (LGO) and performance goal orientation (PGO). Furthermore, within PGO a distinction between avoid performance goal orientation (APGO) and prove performance goal orientation (PPGO) could be made. In moderator analyses the influence of measurement method of performance adaptation (subjective ratings vs objective scores) was assessed amongst others. Although significant effects were found they were primarily visible for subjective ratings and not objective scores.

Quality of Work and Team Spirit as Drivers of Student Peer Evaluation on Advertising Group Project Performance

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jooyoung Kim ◽  
Tae Hyun Baek ◽  
Daehyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Peer Evaluation ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Team Spirit ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Goal Orientation

Using the evaluation traits typically adopted by college instructors, this study investigates the dimensions of peer evaluation criteria used by college students in advertising management and campaigns courses and examines their effects on overall peer evaluation under the influence of three moderating self-related concepts: self-esteem, self-competence and goal orientations (i.e., learning goal orientation and performance goal orientation). The results, from Study 1 suggest Quality of Work and Team Spirit as two important factors for students’ evaluation of their peers. The moderating effects of self-related concepts from Study 2 indicate that students with high self-esteem and high self-competence use Quality of Work predominantly, while students with high learning goal orientation and performance goal orientation use both Quality of Work and Team Spirit for peer evaluations. Overall, the findings indicate that students use Quality of Work more strongly in evaluating their team peers, compared to Team Spirit.

Person–job fit and job involvement: the curvilinear effect and the moderating role of goal orientation

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Ju ◽  
Jingjing Yao ◽  
Li Ma
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Job Involvement ◽  
Job Fit ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Cross Sectional Design ◽  
Employee Needs

PurposeJob involvement is an important predictor of how well employees perform and feel at work. However, despite fruitful findings, little is known about how person–job (P–J) fit affects job involvement.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a cross-sectional design and collected data from 375 employees and 50 managers. Multivariate regression was applied to test the moderated curvilinear model.FindingsThis study found an inverted U-shaped relationship between P–J fit and job involvement. For employees with a strong performance goal orientation, maximum job involvement occurred at a higher level of P–J fit, whereas for employees with a strong learning goal orientation, maximum job involvement occurred at a moderate level of P–J fit.Practical implicationsManagers should be aware that solely maximizing fit may not constantly yield positive outcomes, and that ignoring differences in employee needs and goals may be counterproductive.Originality/valueThe study challenges the conventional wisdom that a high P–J fit is always productive by showing that a high fit may sometimes jeopardize job involvement, particularly for certain employees.

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