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University Student’s Academic Goals When Working in Teams: Questionnaire on Academic Goals in Teamwork, 3 × 2 Model

Group work is a very common practice in higher education when it comes to developing key competences for students’ personal and professional growth. The goals that students pursue when working in teams determine how they organize and regulate their behavior and how they approach the tasks. The acade...

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Autores principales: León-del-Barco, Benito, Mendo-Lázaro, Santiago, Polo-del-Río, Ma Isabel, Rasskin-Gutman, Irina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6821790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31708853
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02434
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author León-del-Barco, Benito
Mendo-Lázaro, Santiago
Polo-del-Río, Ma Isabel
Rasskin-Gutman, Irina
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Mendo-Lázaro, Santiago
Polo-del-Río, Ma Isabel
Rasskin-Gutman, Irina
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description Group work is a very common practice in higher education when it comes to developing key competences for students’ personal and professional growth. The goals that students pursue when working in teams determine how they organize and regulate their behavior and how they approach the tasks. The academic goals are a relevant variable that can condition the success of the group, as they guide and direct the students toward involvement in the task, the effort they make, and the desire to increase their academic competence, and their learning. Thus, the need arises to create new evaluation instruments to help us understand the importance of academic goals when students work as a team. The purpose of this paper is to corroborate the construct validity of the questionnaire on teamwork learning goals (QTLG) based on the achievement goal questionnaire (3 × 2 AGQ) of Elliot et al. (2011) in the context of teamwork, and to determine if the model 3 × 2 offers a better fit to the data than other models, such as: 2 × 2; Trichotomous; Definition; Valence, among others. The results obtained from a sample of 700 students from 6 Spanish universities confirm that, in the context of teamwork, the 3 × 2 model fits the data better than the rest of the models subjected to confirmatory analysis, with contrasting evidence of validity and reliability. Therefore, we considered it a useful instrument for studying motivation in the group work context. The QTLG has practical applications, allowing us to explore in detail the academic goals of university students.
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spelling pubmed-68217902019-11-08 University Student’s Academic Goals When Working in Teams: Questionnaire on Academic Goals in Teamwork, 3 × 2 Model León-del-Barco, Benito Mendo-Lázaro, Santiago Polo-del-Río, Ma Isabel Rasskin-Gutman, Irina Front Psychol Psychology Group work is a very common practice in higher education when it comes to developing key competences for students’ personal and professional growth. The goals that students pursue when working in teams determine how they organize and regulate their behavior and how they approach the tasks. The academic goals are a relevant variable that can condition the success of the group, as they guide and direct the students toward involvement in the task, the effort they make, and the desire to increase their academic competence, and their learning. Thus, the need arises to create new evaluation instruments to help us understand the importance of academic goals when students work as a team. The purpose of this paper is to corroborate the construct validity of the questionnaire on teamwork learning goals (QTLG) based on the achievement goal questionnaire (3 × 2 AGQ) of Elliot et al. (2011) in the context of teamwork, and to determine if the model 3 × 2 offers a better fit to the data than other models, such as: 2 × 2; Trichotomous; Definition; Valence, among others. The results obtained from a sample of 700 students from 6 Spanish universities confirm that, in the context of teamwork, the 3 × 2 model fits the data better than the rest of the models subjected to confirmatory analysis, with contrasting evidence of validity and reliability. Therefore, we considered it a useful instrument for studying motivation in the group work context. The QTLG has practical applications, allowing us to explore in detail the academic goals of university students. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6821790/ /pubmed/31708853 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02434 Text en Copyright © 2019 León-del-Barco, Mendo-Lázaro, Polo-del-Río and Rasskin-Gutman. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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León-del-Barco, Benito
Mendo-Lázaro, Santiago
Polo-del-Río, Ma Isabel
Rasskin-Gutman, Irina
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title University Student’s Academic Goals When Working in Teams: Questionnaire on Academic Goals in Teamwork, 3 × 2 Model
title_full University Student’s Academic Goals When Working in Teams: Questionnaire on Academic Goals in Teamwork, 3 × 2 Model
title_fullStr University Student’s Academic Goals When Working in Teams: Questionnaire on Academic Goals in Teamwork, 3 × 2 Model
title_full_unstemmed University Student’s Academic Goals When Working in Teams: Questionnaire on Academic Goals in Teamwork, 3 × 2 Model
title_short University Student’s Academic Goals When Working in Teams: Questionnaire on Academic Goals in Teamwork, 3 × 2 Model
title_sort university student’s academic goals when working in teams: questionnaire on academic goals in teamwork, 3 × 2 model
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6821790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31708853
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02434
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