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Ляшенко, Ірина Володимирівна, Ирина Владимировна Ляшенко, Iryna Volodymyrivna Liashenko, and Krivoshey Y. O. "Goal Setting in Sport." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2019. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/72496.

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Goal setting is defined as what the person is trying to achieve. This is an object or purpose or action. In modern definitions, reaching goals often means achieving a standard or competence in a task. Goals usually reflect unconscientious intentions or goals. Goals are regulated and accepted behavior.
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Rosencrantz, Holger. "Goal-setting and goal-achieving in transport policy." Licentiate thesis, Stockholm, 2006. http://www.diva-portal.org/kth/theses/abstract.xsql?dbid=3995.

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Isley, Shane D. "Toward a functional approach to goal setting." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5162/.

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A variable that may be associated with performance improvements is goal setting (within and across days). Easy-to-achieve goals will likely produce gradual trends in improvement and difficult-to-achieve goals steeper trends. The purpose of the current experiments was to study the effects of setting easy-to-achieve and difficult-to-achieve goals on the level, trend, and variability of correct, incorrect, and skip responses for math tasks when reinforcement contingencies and numbers of practices were held constant. Five undergraduate students answered math problems on flash cards in 30s timings.
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Moss, Sara Anne. "Hope and goal outcomes: The role of goal-setting behaviors." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1513865199503514.

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Luzhnica, Doruntina. "Goal setting for innovation : Exploring the relation to operational goals." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-24516.

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Goal setting is proven to affect the choices and focus of the employees towards certain tasks, therefore it has been suggested for ensuring that sufficient focus and attentions is direct towards explorative activities (Lund & Magnusson, 2015), which are otherwise at risk of being down prioritized (Levinthal & March, 1993). Such effects of goal setting can though not be expected in situations where there is low commitment to the goal program (Latham, 2004). A factor which is important for increasing the goal commitment, is having clear rationales for the goals set. However, because ther
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Jelassi, Ramzi. "Hur påverkar goal-setting och self-efficacy prestationer på uppgifter med olika grad av komplexitet?" Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Psykologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-144547.

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Många motivationsteorier existerar vilka försöker beskriva drivkraften bakom våra handlingar. En sådan är goal-setting teorin enligt vilken specifika svåra mål skapar bättre prestationer. Self-efficacy påverkar dessutom influensen av mål eftersom individer med hög self-efficacy tenderar att engagera sig mer kring uppsatta mål. Effekten av mål verkar även bero på nivån av komplexitet i en uppgift. Syftet med studien var därför att vidare undersöka hur goal-setting och self-efficacy tillsammans påverkar prestationer på uppgifter med olika grad av komplexitet. En enkätundersökning med 145 undersö
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Cale, Andrew. "Goal setting, multidimensional anxiety and performance." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1991. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7124.

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The primary purpose of the experiments carried out within this thesis was to examine the relationships between goals, the perceptions of individuals towards those goals, the performance environment and the eventual performance outcome. More specifically, what are the changes in selected goal setting variables and what is the anxiety response within individuals, when objective goal difficulty is manipulated under various environmental conditions? Four laboratory-based experiments were carried out in this research. The primary purpose of the first experiment was to establish an appropriate exper
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Dyck, Patricia Sarah. "The effects of goal setting method on goal attributes and adherence to physical activity and nutrition goals." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ34308.pdf.

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Greco, Lindsey Michelle. "Professional identification and career goals: goal setting in the role transition process." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2085.

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The question of the development and content of personal career goals has received little attention and relatively little is known about the factors influencing career goals and when and how career goal setting occurs. Drawing from Ashforth’s (2001) model of role transitions, I propose that professional identification is an important precursor to the development of career goals. The primary research objectives of this dissertation are to explore how identity motives drawn from experiences in graduate school relate to profes
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Meacham, Kristina A. "The Role of Attention in Goal Setting." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9917.

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This study examined the role of attention in goal setting theory, using techniques adapted from selective attention research. Specifically, it explored activation and suppression of goal related information in the presence of two conflicting assigned goals. Pre vs. post goal completion and goal commitment were examined as moderators of these attentional effects. In addition, exploratory analyses looked at the impact of individual differences on attention (goal preference & action-state orientation). Analyses were conducted using three-level hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), where repeated me
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Velasco, Moreno Ferran. "Effective Goal Setting in Leadership Development Programs." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667295.

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Cada vegada més professionals s’inscriuen a programes de formació executiva, especialment a aquells orientats al desenvolupament directiu, amb l’objectiu d’embarcar en una transició personal o professional. En conseqüència, quan es demana als participants d’aquests programes establir objectius de desenvolupament i definir els corresponents plans d’acció, els participants inclouen no només el desenvolupament de competències de lideratge sinó que freqüentment també inclouen aspiracions personals i objectius de carrera a més llarg termini. El propòsit d’aquesta recerca és descobrir com el procés
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Isley, Shane D. Rosales-Ruiz Jesus. "Toward a functional approach to goal setting." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-5162.

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Smit, Hendré. "Motor competence and goal setting in rugby /." Link to the online version, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/712.

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Smit, Hendre. "Motor competence and goal setting in rugby." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3109.

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Thesis (M Sport Sc (Sport Science))--Stellenbosch University, 2007.<br>The study explored the potential of rugby as a developmental experience, not only in terms of the motor skills that lead to competence in rugby, but also in terms of learning more about the life-skill of goal setting. A 10 session pre-season programme entitled “More than Rugby” was designed and implemented in order to determine whether combining skill instruction with activities specifically designed to increase an understanding of goal setting had an impact on either the development of rugby competence or understanding abo
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Cash, Erin. "Motivation and Goal-Setting in College Athletes." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37542.

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Motivation and goal-setting are important concepts in athletics and sport and exercise psychology. However, little research has compared motivation and goal-setting by gender. The self-determination theory was used and the purpose of this study was to determine if there is a difference between male and female athletes when looking at amotivation, external regulation, identified regulation, intrinsic motivation, and goal-setting. One hundred and six student-athletes (fifty one males and fifty five females) from a Division I college in Virginia participated in the study. These student-athletes
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Stitcher, Thomas P. "The Effects of Goal Setting on Performance Enhancement in a Competitive Athletic Setting." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331612/.

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The purpose of the investigation was to determine if goal setting has an effect on physical performance in a realistic, natural, and competitive athletic environment. Results revealed no significant differences between the goal-setting group and the "do your best" group when performing lacrosse skills. However, results from the questionnaire indicated significant main effect difficulty of the tasks. These results imply that athletes in the goal-setting group felt that their goals were not realistic and that it was increasingly difficult to reach their goals as the season progressed. Because
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Hafsteinsson, Leifur Geir. "The Interacting Effect of Self-Efficacy and Performance Goal Orientation on Goal Setting and Performance: The Positive Side of Performance Goal Orientation." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31534.

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The empirical literature on goal orientation is ambiguous in relation to the supposed effects of performance goal orientation (PGO) on goal setting and performance. In an attempt to clear up this issue it was hypothesized based on Carol Dweckâ s (1989) theoretical framework that dispositional performance goal orientation would interact with self-efficacy in their effect on level of self-set goal and performance, such that the relationship between PGO and goals (and performance) would be positive for individuals high on self-efficacy, while negative for individuals low on self-efficacy. Furthe
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Gore, Truman Joseph. "Goal Orientations and Self-Efficacy Interactions on Self-Set Goal Level." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1401715350.

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Baard, Patrik. "Sustainable Goals : Feasible Paths to Desirable Long-Term Futures." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Filosofi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-144917.

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The general aim of this licentiate thesis is to analyze the framework in which long-term goals are set and subsequently achieved. It is often claimed that goals should be realistic, meaning that they should be adjusted to known abilities. This thesis will argue that this might be very difficult in areas related to sustainable development and climate change adaptation, and that goals that are, to an acceptable degree, unrealistic, can have important functions. Essay I discusses long-term goal setting. When there is a great temporal discrepancy between the point in time of setting and achieving
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Chin, Weiman Raymond. "The Role of Impression Management in Goal Setting." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/951.

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This paper examines the effect of impression management on goal level and commitment to the goal. Participants involved in a goal-setting program in the United States were asked to complete a web survey regarding their desire to impress superiors and their commitment to the goal. The specific dependant measures were self-set goal and goal commitment. No statistically significant differences were found between high and low desires to manage impressions with respect to goal set, but a higher desire to manage impressions was positively correlated with a higher degree of goal commitment.
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Edvardsson, Björnberg Karin. "Rational Goal-Setting in Environmental Policy : Foundations and Applications." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Filosofi, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-9273.

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The overall aim of this thesis is to present a model for rational goal-setting and to illustrate how it can be applied in evaluations of public policies, in particular policies concerning sustainable development and environmental quality. The contents of the thesis are divided into two sections: a theoretical section (Papers I-IV) and an empirical section (Papers V-VII). Paper I identifies a set of rationality criteria for single goals and discusses them in relation to the typical function of goals. It is argued that goals are typically set to enhance goal achievement. A goal that successfully
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Breland, Benjamin Tyson IV. "Learning and Performance Goal Orientations' Influence on the Goal Setting Process: Is there an Interaction Effect?" Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32129.

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The present study set out to examine the role of learning and performance goal orientation on goal setting and self-efficacy. More specially, the present study attempted to verify the results of the effects of learning goal orientation and to clarify the role of performance goal orientation. In addition, the role of self-efficacy and the possibility of an interaction between learning goal orientation and performance goal orientation were also examined. While the present study did not find a significant impact of dispositional goal orientation on any motivational variables examined, rela
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Welsh, David Thomas. "Extending the Self-Regulatory Model Linking High Goals and Unethical Behavior: The Moderating Effects of Goal Commitment and Subconscious Priming." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/316775.

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Recent research has demonstrated that over time, consecutive high performance goals can increase unethical behavior by depleting one's self-regulatory resources (Welsh & Ordóñez, 2014). In this study, I extend the mediated model connecting goals, depletion, and unethical behavior. First, I propose that the depleting effects associated with a single goal can increase depletion and facilitate unethicality both in pursuit of the goal and also in unrelated areas. Second, I draw from the goal-setting literature to hypothesize that high levels of goal commitment will moderate the relationship betwee
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Stark, Fredrik, and Nisha Purohit. "Managers' Goal-Setting Strategies : Focus on Small Businesses." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-952.

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<p>Abstract</p><p>Background:</p><p>Goals and goal-setting are two aspects that occur everyday in business life however little is known about the effect of strategic goal-setting. To a cer-tain extent, this affects all of us either directly or indirectly, everyday through strategic decisions that are made by business managers all around the world. A company’s performance of a company can be measured in many ways. A firm’s performance can be financially successful if the com-pany’s strategy is well planned. Strategic planning consists of developing goal-strategies, which aim at contributing to
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Charny, Leonid. "Adaptive goal-setting in tasks with multiple criteria." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/14187.

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Harrah, Alan. "A goal-setting system for offensive football coaches." Master's thesis, This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02022010-020135/.

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Foley, Jennifer. "Congestive heart failure effects of mutual goal setting /." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2008. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/360.

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Sugavanam, Thava Priya. "Person-centred goal setting for exercise after stroke." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2014. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7431.

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Clinical guidelines and policies recommend exercise after stroke. Person-centred goal setting may facilitate the uptake and maintenance of physical activity. The aim of this work was to design and evaluate a goal setting intervention in an exercise after stroke setting. Five interlinked studies were undertaken within the development and feasibility stages of the MRC framework of complex interventions. A systematic review examined 17 observational studies (11 quantitative, six qualitative) for the effects and experiences of goal setting in stroke rehabilitation (study one). Despite some positiv
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Caudill, Michael R. "Methods for performance goal setting of fielded jet engines." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA301274.

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Burns, Tessa. "An examination of goal-setting theory research and performance." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2007. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2007/2007burnst.pdf.

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Peydro, Jorge. "Ways of goal setting and measurement for radical innovation." Thesis, KTH, Maskinkonstruktion (Inst.), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-180661.

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Edvardsson, Björnberg Karin. "Rational goal-setting in environmental policy : foundations and applications /." Stockholm : Department of Philosophy and the History of Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-9273.

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Rosencrantz, Holger. "Goal-Setting and the Logic of Transport Policy Decisions." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-10080.

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Malemute, Charlene Louise. "Goal setting education and counseling practices of diabetes educators." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Fall2009/c_malemute_121509.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in human nutrition)--Washington State University, December 2009.<br>Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 11, 2010). "Program in Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism." Includes bibliographical references.
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Gardner, Tania. "Patient led goal setting for chronic low back pain." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23548.

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Chronic low back pain (CLBP) exerts a significant burden on the individual and society. To date, despite a large amount of research conducted in this field no treatment offers effective and sustainable improvements in outcomes. A patient-centred care approach, that takes into account the person with CLBP, their values and skills set, and encourages the person to take the lead in their own management, is said to facilitate self-management. Goal setting is an intervention most commonly used to facilitate behaviour change and is a common component of self-management programs. Several theories und
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Quintela, Yvette. "The Spillover Effects of Motivational Processes in a Dual Task Setting." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/10158.

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The present study set out to examine whether negative goal-performance discrepancy (GPD) feedback for one task could have a negative effect on goal-setting associated with an unrelated, distinct task. A series of hierarchical regression analyses were conducted. Results show that large versus small negative GPD feedback on a creativity task impacted levels of specific self-efficacy for a stock-predicting task, which indicated a motivational spillover effect. However, large negative GPD on the creativity task was not evidenced to impact performance goals for the stock-predicting task, as hypothe
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Cheung, Gordon Wai-hung. "How goals affect performance : task complexity as a moderator on the cognitive processes of goal setting /." Diss., This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-172122/.

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Lee, Yong Kyu. "Focus on Outcomes or on Effort: The Role of Self-efficacy on Influencing Expectations." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52941.

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In this dissertation, I investigate how differences in the manner via which individuals pursue goals (judging effort from outcome or outcome from effort) influences expectations (effort vs. outcome). In particular, I focus on the role of self-efficacy, and show that when individuals focus on outcomes, they take self-efficacy into consideration when assessing how much effort is needed. However, when focusing on effort, individuals do not take self-efficacy into consideration when making judgments of outcomes. Thus, I find that irrespective of differences in self-efficacy, individuals expect sim
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Summers, Rachael Hannah. "Exploring goals and goal-setting in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): patient and physiotherapist perspectives." Thesis, St George's, University of London, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.617012.

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Background: Goal-setting is described as a 'cornerstone' of rehabilitation and patient-clinician collaboration is advocated. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a condition commonly seen by respiratory physiotherapists. However, there is little research on the goals of patients with COPD or respiratory physiotherapist perspectives on goal-setting. Aim: To explore goals and goal-setting amongst patients and respiratory physiotherapists in the context of stable COPD. Methods: A qualitative approach was used, and a subtle realist, pragmatic approach adopted. Patients with COPD (n=13) and res
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Daly, Clare Jones. "GOALS (Grasping Opportunities After Leaving School) : evaluating a brief goal-setting intervention programme for adolescents." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2015. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26043.

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Successful transition from school to post-school is considered vital for each individual and to wider society yet there are still an estimated 31,000 young people in Scotland who leave school without a positive destination (i.e. engaged in education, employment or training) to go to (Scottish Government, 2011). Much of the research with adolescents during transition has been around developing skills for employment yet very little research has been carried out on the young peoples' autonomy and their own goals for the future. To address this gap in the research, a new goal-setting intervention
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Keller, Kevin D. "Goal Setting and Physical Task Performance: Investigating the Moderating Effects of Skill Levels and Outcome Difficulty." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41003.

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Guided by the research on cognitive performance tasks (e.g., Wood, Mento, & Locke, 1987), the potential moderating effects of skill and outcome difficulty upon the relationship between specific, difficult goals and physical task performance were examined from an attribute treatment approach. Overall, different measures of performance yielded several convergent findings. Using a sample of 184 laboratory participants, a test of the primary hypothesis failed to support the expected three-way interaction among skill, outcome difficulty and goal setting. Models containing skill and outcome diffic
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Evans, Lynne Elizabeth. "An investigation into the psychological responses of injured athletes." Thesis, Bangor University, 1998. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/an-investigation-into-the-psychological-responses-of-injured-athletes(29c65ace-f99b-4bb1-9ccd-1fc4af48ccd4).html.

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This thesis examined the psychological responses of injured athletes as a basis for designing theoretically meaningful intervention strategies to expedite recovery from sports injuries. The thesis is written as a series of research papers (studies). The methodological approaches adopted ranged from quasi-experimental to qualitative research in a naturalistic rehabilitation setting. The first study reported the development of a theoretically derived psychometric measure to assess athletes psychological responses to injury, initially using exploratory factor analysis and subsequently, confirmato
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Moore, C. Richard III. "A Study of Training, Feedback, & Goal Setting for Improving Quality in an Organizational Setting." TopSCHOLAR®, 1989. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2652.

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The current study investigated the effects of training, knowledge of results (KR), and goal setting on improving product quality in a field setting. Both practical and theoretical issues were addressed through the experimental design. A practical concern was the improvement of product quality in an organization. The theoretical issue was the increased understanding and utility of goal setting and knowledge of results for motivating workers' quality behavior. Two existing departments (n=60 employees) of an aluminum window manufacturing plant were studied with the use of a multiple-baseline, wit
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au, sheehy@essun1 murdoch edu, and Lucy Ann Sheehy. "Goal Setting for Sustainability: A New Method of Environmental Education." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061101.85105.

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If current environmental problems are to be addressed and future environmental problems are to be prevented, significant changes are needed in the way people live. Environmental education has been identified as an important tool for encouraging people to make the changes needed for sustainability. However, environmental education has been largely ineffective in doing this. Education about the environment is being achieved, but education that creates the skills and motivation for action is not. The purpose of this research was to investigate the potential of goal setting to be used in environ
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Jeong, Stephen B. "Participation and goal setting an examination of the components of participation /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1150379850.

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Hunt, Richard. "The Effects of Goal Setting in a Developmental Algebra Course." TopSCHOLAR®, 2012. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1139.

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The purpose of this study was to study the effects of goal setting on students in a developmental algebra course. This study examined the effects on test scores for students that were prescribed a test score goal, students that created their own test score goal, and then compared to a control group. Three classes of developmental algebra were chosen with a total of 25 participants with reported results. Results showed that students with a goal on a test did not score significantly better than students without a goal, but did score significantly better on a test after the goal than tests before
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Sheehy, Lucy Ann. "Goal setting for sustainability: a new method of environmental education." Sheehy, Lucy Ann (2006) Goal setting for sustainability: a new method of environmental education. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/307/.

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If current environmental problems are to be addressed and future environmental problems are to be prevented, significant changes are needed in the way people live. Environmental education has been identified as an important tool for encouraging people to make the changes needed for sustainability. However, environmental education has been largely ineffective in doing this. Education about the environment is being achieved, but education that creates the skills and motivation for action is not. The purpose of this research was to investigate the potential of goal setting to be used in envir
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Kashyap, Pankaj Kumar. "Goal setting for improvement in product development performance of organizations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83792.

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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, February 2013.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "Sep 2012."<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-109).<br>Companies have been constantly trying for ways and means to improve R&D performance as it is one of the most important competitive advantage tools of an organization. Literature review on R&D performance improvement suggests that, lot of focus is on measuring R&D performance and on specific problem solving approaches like six sigma and lean. Frameworks like
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DeLoach, Adrien D. "The Career Goal-Setting Processes of Black Woman Engineering Majors." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/98814.

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Despite widespread efforts to reduce inequities in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) job market, huge disparities remain for both African Americans and women in those sectors of employment. Extant literature affirms that Black women encounter various challenges when pursuing STEM careers. More specifically, the research on Black women in engineering focuses primarily on their experiences in academia and does not include their experiences as undergraduates transitioning into the industry workforce. To address these gaps in the literature, this study explored the ca
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Rozhon, Michele Antoinette. "Effects of explanatory style and situational constraints on goal setting." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09192009-040320/.

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