Date of Award
2013
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the goal intent and achievement of university students, during the Fall 2011 semester, at Blue Wave University, a high research activity public institution in the southeast United States. This study merged theories of motivation to measure goal setting and goal attainment to examine if students who chose to participate in a learning community program set goals at different levels than the students who chose not to join a learning community program. This study investigated if there was a difference in motivation, by studying goal intent and goal achievement of Freshman Learning Community participants, Living- Learning community participants, or non-learning community participants at Blue Wave University. . Moderation analyses concluded that none the seven contextual variables (choice of college, ethnicity, gender, high school grade point average, living on-campus, SAT score, and ACT score) moderated the difference in the level of change from goal intent to goal achievement in this study.
Extent
xi, 121 p. : ill. (some col.)
Recommended Citation
Pfeffer-Lachs, Carole F., "Assessing goal intent and achievement of university learning community students" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 694.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/694
Identifier
FADT3360967
Comments
by Carole F. Pfeffer-Lachs.|Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2013.|Includes bibliography.|Mode of access: World Wide Web.|System requirements: Adobe Reader.|by Carole F. Pfeffer-Lachs.