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The Student Goals Exploration: Reliability and Concurrent Validity

National Center for Research to Improve Postsecondary Teaching and Learning (NCRIPTAL), The University of Michigan

Richard J. Bentley

National Center for Research to Improve Postsecondary Teaching and Learning (NCRIPTAL), The University of Michigan

Malcolm A. Lowther

National Center for Research to Improve Postsecondary Teaching and Learning (NCRIPTAL), The University of Michigan

Kathleen M. Shaw

National Center for Research to Improve Postsecondary Teaching and Learning (NCRIPTAL), The University of Michigan

This paper reports the reliability and concurrent validity of the Student Goals Exploration, a paper and pencil inventory that measures goals students bring to college and college courses. Reliabilities demonstrating internal consistency and correlations demonstrating concurrent validity with three existing scales (LOGO II, the Need for Cognition Scale, and the Goal Instability Scale) suggest that the SGE provides good indicators for (a) general college goals, (b) general academic orientations toward courses, (c) subject-specific goals in courses, (d) specific goal attributes, and (e) levels of student confidence in course success.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 51, No. 2, 413-422 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/0013164491512015


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