TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reimanis, Gunars.
TI  - Achievement Motivation Training in a Community College Setting. Effects on Personality and Educational Variables
PY  - 1970///
CY  - [Washington, D.C.]
PB  - Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse
KW  - Academic Achievement
KW  - ericd
KW  - Achievement Gains
KW  - Achievement Rating
KW  - Achievement Tests
KW  - Behavior Change
KW  - Goal Orientation
KW  - Learning Motivation
KW  - Low Achievement
KW  - Motivation
KW  - Personality
KW  - Student Improvement
KW  - Teacher Influence
KW  - Underachievement
N1  - ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Interamerican Congress of Psychology, Panama City, December 15, 1971; Microfiche; [Washington D.C.]; ERIC Clearinghouse; microfiches : positive
N2  - The Corning Community College, having an open-door admissions policy, has been offering a course in achievement motivation for the past two years. The course, requiring about forty-five hours of participation, was started on an experimental basis with specially selected high-risk entering students during the summer of 1969. The main purposes of the course have been: (1) to help students adjust to college life, (2) to provide them with skills in self-exploration that facilitate their career planning, and (3) to increase their motivation in pursuit of their goals. This paper presents research data that were collected over a two year period to assess the effects of the achievement motivation course on several educationally relevant variables. It was hypothesized that achievement motivation training would give rise to increased achievement motivation. The results generally supported the hypothesis, but it was strongly suggested that trainer and trainee personalities have to be considered to gain a more complete understanding of the effects of achievement motivation training. (Author/BW)
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