Perceived classroom goals structure and academic achievement among iranian university students

Classroom is one of the main places for teaching scientific subjects and teaching medical sciences is highly important due to dealing with health and medical issues that impact human health; the aim of this study was determined of perceived classroom goals structure and academic achievement among university students in the West of Iran. This cross sectional study was carried out on 330 college students of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, the west of Iran which recruited with a random sampling method. Data were analyzed by SPSS-21. Our findings, showed mastery goal structure has a significant positive correlation with academic achievement students (p = 0.001 and r = 0.430). According to findings, "creating motivation by the professor" among the factors related to the professor, "interest in the academic field" among the factors related to student and "the time the classes are held" among the factors related to the environment were among the main factors impacting class attendance. In addition, "the classroom goal is accurate and real understanding of the teaching materials" among mastery structure items, "the main classroom goal is obtaining good score" among the performance structure items and "it is highly important in the class that individual does not make mistake in the presence of others" among the performance avoidance structure items obtained higher mean scores.