title: Development of a questionnaire to measure achievement orientations in physical education.
abstract: Drawing from the work of Ames (1992) on classroom motivational climate, a questionnaire was developed to measure students' perceptions of achievement orientations in physical education. Exploratory factor analytic results revealed a five-factor solution with good internal consistency. Results from confirmatory factor analyses suggested that the two factors were first-order factors of a second higher-order factor, Learning, and the remaining three factors were subfactors of a second higher-order factor, Performance. Further evidence of construct validity was shown in that students' intrinsic motivation and positive attitudes toward the lesson were positively related to the learning-oriented scales and unrelated to performance-oriented scales. Finally, the questionnaire discriminated classes differing in motivational climate. The results are discussed in terms of the psychometric properties of the questionnaire.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, Democritos University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Papaioannou
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D010806:Physical Education and Training / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires