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Title:
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MOBILE LEARNING AND ACHIEVEMENT GOAL ORIENTATION PROFILES |
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Author(s):
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Minna Asplund |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8704-02-3 |
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Editors:
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Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2014 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Mobile assignment, m-questionnaire, achievement goal orientation profile, motivation |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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85 |
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Last Page:
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92 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Students with different achievement goal orientations have different approaches towards learning and studying. There is a widespread interest to find an easy access into learning spaces for those students who have low motivation with fear of failure and academic withdrawal. Mobile learning offers an easily accessible chance with low threshold to view materials and to carry out mobile assignments. The topic of this cases study was to investigate different achievement goal orientation profiles combined with mobile learning. The aim of the study was to reveal if any correlation could be found between students achievement goal orientation profiles and results from mobile assignments students did with smartphones on the course The basics of databases. The sample consisted of students in the second academic year (N=173) at the Faculty of Technology at Lahti University of Applied Sciences in Finland, of whom 64.7% had an achievement goal orientation profile (n=112). The results of the study imply that no difference can be found between orientation profiles and outcome from mobile assignments. Contrary to what was expected, students with a positive orientation profile (mastery-oriented and success-oriented) did not get any better results from mobile assignments than students with a negative orientation profile (avoidance-oriented). This in turn implies that students with an avoidance-oriented profile could benefit from mobile assignments. |
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