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Title:
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TAGSET FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS'
EDUCATIONAL GOALS |
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Author(s):
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Felix Weber and Elen Le Foll |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8704-22-1 |
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Editors:
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Demetrios G. Sampson, Dirk Ifenthaler and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2020 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Goal Setting, Goal Characteristics, Goal Classification, Study Goals, Higher Education |
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Type:
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Full |
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First Page:
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27 |
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Last Page:
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34 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Self-set educational goals are central to self-regulated learning and an observable manifestation of students' motivation. In
this paper, we develop and trial a tagset for the characteristics of university students' self-set goals. The novelty of this
approach consists in using data-driven, non-exclusive tags, rather than theory-derived, exclusive categories, on the basis of
freely formulated goals in natural language. A 400-goal sample out of the 2,262 educational goals collected from 732
students at three universities was used to develop a tagset of six metatags and 28 tags. Six coders independently assigned
tags to the collected goals. Based on these tag assignments (n = 376,458), Krippendorff's ? was used to approximate
intercoder reliability. Surprising intercoder agreement scores are discussed. Further, relative frequencies for each of the
tags were calculated. These point to relevant aspects of students' motivations. The tagged dataset may serve as input for
AI-powered study assistant systems, whilst the tagset itself may be used in future studies to gain further insights into
university students' study motivations. |
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