Bridging teacher motivation and instruction: Relevance of student-oriented goals for teaching alongside personal achievement goals and self-efficacy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Achievement goals and self-efficacy are key components of teacher motivation and crucial for teaching quality and student outcomes, yet the processes explaining why they lead to specific teaching behaviours remain unclear. This study focuses on student-oriented goals as a potential process element and construct in its own right.

Aims

We aim to uncover the associations of teachers' personal goals and self-efficacy beliefs with specific teaching behaviours, and the added value of student-oriented goals for these processes.

Sample

70 secondary school teachers from German general education secondary schools, teaching Mathematics in grades 7-9 in lower track secondary education (42 women, 28 men; mean age 43.7 years, SD = 10.6) filled out a total of 345 lesson d

SUBMITTER: Daumiller M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12427154 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature