Which of the following should be promoted by a teacher?

Goal orientation theory is a social-cognitive theory that tries to find the correlation between goals and goal motivation. Goal orientation is defined as the reasons individuals engage in achievement-related activities.

Key Points

• Approach-oriented mastery goals should be promoted by a teacher as these goals are focused on gaining the standard level of competence and the main focus is on self-improvement and gaining mastery over a task.
• These goals are defined as a focus on mastering new skills, trying to gain increased understanding, and improving competence. Students adopting mastery goals define success in terms of improvement and learning.
• Example: Doing a worksheet to improve one's competence in the domain of particular interest.

Hint

• Performance goals: Individuals who are performance-oriented are interested in competition. They use other students as comparing points. The main focus is on outperforming others.
• Students with Avoidance-oriented performance goals are concerned with avoiding failure in front of others. They are extrinsically motivated by a fear of poor performance.

Hence, Approach-oriented mastery goals should be promoted by a teacher.