Latent structure of learning goals and strategies

dc.creator	Opačić Goran
dc.creator	Mirkov Snežana
dc.date	2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:09:21Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:09:21Z
dc.identifier	10.2298/ZIPI1001027O
dc.identifier	0579-6431
dc.identifier	1820-9270
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/eae32f00fd5348caab8c6ca5c5f13a3d
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/12725
dc.description	A review of the relevant literature demonstrates disagreement regarding the number and nature of factors that affect learning goals and strategies, as well as whether the goals and strategies may be treated as separate groups of phenomena. In order to clarify this controversy, a sample of 364 Belgrade University students was given an instrument consisting of 94 indicators taken from a larger number of available instruments that measure approaches to learning, goal orientations and learning strategies. Factor analysis, applied on the obtained data, showed that six first-order factors related to learning goals and seven first-order factors related to learning strategies explain the latent structure of the phenomenon. Then, second order factor analysis was applied on the pool of obtained factor scores. The assumption that learning goals and strategies share a similar latent structure was confirmed. The results show that a large number of these factors can be predominantly reduced to three latent dimensions: deep approach, surface approach, and achievement approach. The paper suggests that precise operationalisation of the achievement approach is required in the future research.
dc.language	Serbian
dc.publisher	Institut za pedagoška istraživanja
dc.relation	http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0579-6431/2010/0579-64311001027O.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/0579-6431
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1820-9270
dc.source	Zbornik Instituta za Pedagoška Istraživanja, Vol 42, Iss 1, Pp 27-41 (2010)
dc.subject	learning goals
dc.subject	learning strategies
dc.subject	structure
dc.subject	factor analysis
dc.subject	approaches to learning
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Latent structure of learning goals and strategies
dc.type	article