Development and validation of scores on a measure of six academic orientations in college students

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 678-693

  Davidson, William B ^b   Beck, Hall P ^c   Silver, N Clayton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033417799     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00131649921970107     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Amabile, T. A., Hill, K. G., Hennessey, B. A., & Tighe, E. M. (1994). The Work Preference Inventory: Assessing intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 950-967.
2. Bandura, A. (Ed.). (1995). Self-efficacy in changing societies. New York: Cambridge University Press.
3. Barron, F., & Harrington, D. M. (1981). Creativity, intelligence, and personality. Annual Review of Psychology, 32, 439-476.
4. Beck, H. P., Rorrer-Woody, S., & Pierce, L. G. (1991). The relationships of learning- and grade-orientations to academic performance. Teaching of Psychology, 18, 35-37.
5. Cattell, R. (1986). Administrator's manual for the 16 PF. Champaign, IL: Institute for Personality and Ability Testing.
6. Cohen, J. (1969). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. New York: Academic Press.
7. Comrey, A. L., & Lee, H. B. (1992). A first course in factor analysis (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
8. Costa, P. T., & McCrae, R. R. (1992). Revised NEO personality inventory manual. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
9. Crowne, D. P., & Marlowe, D. (1960). A new scale of social desirability independent of psychopathology. Journal of Consulting Psychology, 24, 349-354.
10. Ebeling, K. S., & Spear, P. S. (1980). Preference and performance on two tasks of varying ambiguity as a function of ambiguity tolerance. Australian Journal of Psychology, 32, 127-133.
11. Eison, J. A., Pollio, H. R., & Milton, O. (1982). LOCO II: A user's manual. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, Learning Research Center.
12. Fulkerson, F. E., & Martin, G. (1981). Effects of exam frequency on student performance, evaluations of instructor, and test anxiety. Teaching of Psychology, 8, 90-93.
13. Gough, H. (1987). California Psychological Inventory administrator's guide. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychological Press.
14. Goulden, N. R., & Griffin, C. J. (1997). Comparison of university faculty and student beliefs about the meaning of grades. Journal of Research and Development in Education, 31, 27-37.
15. Harackiewicz, J. M., Barron, K. E., Carter, S. M., Lehto, A. T., & Elliott, A. J. (1997). Predictors and consequences of achievement goals in the college classroom: Maintaining interest and making the grade. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 1284-1295.
16. King, L. A., Walker, L. M., & Broyles, S. J. (1996). Creativity and the five-factor model. Journal of Research in Personality, 30, 189-203.
17. McCrae, R. R., Costa, P. T., & Piedmont, R. L. (1993). Folk concepts, natural language, and psychological constructs: The California Psychological Inventory and the five factor model. Journal of Personality, 61, 1-26.
18. Milton, O., Pollio, H. R., & Eison, J. A. (1986). Making sense of college grades. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
19. Multon, K. D., Brown, S. D., & Lent, R. W. (1991). Relation of self-efficacy beliefs to academic outcomes: A meta-analytic investigation. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 38, 30-38.
20. Neuberg, S. L., & Newsom, J. T. (1993). Personal need for structure: Individual differences in the desire for simple structure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 113-131.
21. Nunnally, J. C. (1978). Psychometric theory (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
22. Pollio, H. R. (1992). Learning new information is fun - Yes, but will it be on the test. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, Learning Research Center.
23. Utman, C. H. (1997). Performance effects of motivational state: A meta-analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1, 170-182.
24. Waters, M., Kemp, E., & Pucci, A. (1988). High and low faculty evaluations: Descriptions by students. Teaching of Psychology, 15, 203-204.
25. Zimmerman, B. J. (1995). Self-efficacy and educational development. In A. Bandura (Ed.), Self-efficacy in changing societies (pp. 202-231). New York: Cambridge University Press.