TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceived classroom goals structure and academic achievement among iranian university students
AU - Mirzaei-Alavijeh, Mehdi
AU - Jalilian, Farzad
AU - Karami-Matin, Behzad
AU - Hosseini, Seyyed Nasrollah
AU - Jouybari, Touraj Ahmadi
AU - Mahboubi, Mohammad
AU - Firoozabadi, Abbas
N1 - Funding Information: This study is a part of research project supported by Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran. We would like to thank Deputy of Research of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences for financial support of this study. Publisher Copyright: © Medwell Journals, 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Academic education
KW - Classroom climate
KW - College education
KW - Iran
KW - Materials
U2 - 10.3923/ijtmed.2016.134.138
DO - 10.3923/ijtmed.2016.134.138
M3 - Article
SN - 1816-3319
VL - 11
SP - 134
EP - 138
JO - International Journal of Tropical Medicine
JF - International Journal of Tropical Medicine
IS - 5
ER -