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ED396226 CG027148
Title: Changes in Achievement Goal Orientations after the Transition to Middle School.
Author(s): Anderman, Eric M.; Midgley, Carol
Pages: 24
Publication Date: March 1996
Notes: Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (Boston, MA, March 7-10, 1996).
Sponsoring Agency: Department of Education, Washington, DC. (EDD00001)
Contract No: R117C80003R215A00430
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage.
Language: English
Document Type: Reports--Research (143); Speeches/meeting papers (150)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Kentucky
Journal Announcement: RIENOV1996
Studies suggest
that the transition to middle school is associated with a decline
in motivation and performance for a number of children. This longitudinal
study examined changes in motivation in English and mathematics
across and after the transition from elementary to middle school.
Of particular interest were changes in personal goal orientations
(task and ability), perceptions of classroom goal structures (task
and ability), academic efficacy, and grades in school. Main effects
and interactions of gender, ability, subject, and time were highlighted
in the surveys. Data were collected from students as they progressed
from fifth to seventh grade. Results suggested that students become
somewhat less focused on task goals and more focused on ability
goals when they enter middle school. Personal task goals, ability
goals, and academic efficacy changed both during and after the middle
school transition. Students' task goals declined across the three
grades, while ability goals increased across the grade five-grade
six transition for English, and then decreased between grades six
and seven. Ability goals in math did not change much across the
three years. Academic efficacy dramatically decreased across the
transition, and then increased some after the transition between
grades six and seven. Four tables present statistical analysis.
Contains 66 references. (Author/RJM)
Descriptors: *Academic Achievement; Adolescents; Children; *Goal
Orientation; Grade 5; Grade 6; Grade 7; Intermediate Grades; Junior
High Schools; Language Arts; Longitudinal Studies; Mathematics Achievement;
*Middle Schools; *Student Adjustment; *Student Attitudes; *Student
Motivation
Identifiers: Change Analysis; Middle School Students
