J.L. Meece's scientific contributions

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... Previous research has demonstrated numerous benefits of a mastery goal structure for students' learning, motivation, and performance (Meece, 1991;Patrick, Anderman, Ryan, Edelin, & Midgley, 2001). Because students tend to personally adopt a mastery goal, they feel more intrinsically motivated (Murayama & Elliot, 2009), more actively and deeply en gage in tasks (Wolters, 2004), and less frequently resort to maladaptive strategies (Turn er et al., 2002) in the mastery-oriented than the performance-oriented contexts. ...