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The Effect of Goal Orientation on Student Achievement

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The effect of goal orientation on student achievement was examined in this meta-analysis study. A total of 426 research studies were collected during the literature review, out of which 154 correlation values were included in the meta-analysis. The 154 values belong to 106 independent research studies which were compiled in order to obtain a sample size of 61,191 subjects. The results of the random effect model showed that goal orientation has a low-level positive effect on student achievement . The moderators identified for the study were the type of publication , the sample group (education level), the school subject or assessment type, the country (culture) in which the research was carried out and the year of the studies, of which only country was found to be a moderator variable .

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Güler, M. (2017). The Effect of Goal Orientation on Student Achievement. In: Karadag, E. (eds) The Factors Effecting Student Achievement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56083-0_18

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