Article: An exploratory study of academic goal setting, achievement calibration and self-regulated learning.

This study investigated the effects of a goal-setting intervention on students' perceptions of their use of different types of self-regulatory skills (General Organization/Planning, Task Preparation Strategies, Environmental Structuring, Recall Ability, and Typical Study Strategies). Using students' accuracy in predicting final course grade as a blocking variable, the 2 (calibration accuracy) X 2 (treatment) ANCOVA indicated a significant main effect for Task Preparation Strategics. In addition, accurate calibrators in the goal-setting condition earned significantly higher course grades than control group students who were inaccurate calibrators. Accurate and inaccurate ...

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