Instrument Achievement Goal for Chinese Students

What kind of achievement goals do Chinese students choose and pursue? The current study demonstrated a culture-specific achievement goal, i.e., instrument goal, and investigated its relationship with learning strategy and academic achievement. 536 students from a middle school in northeast China participated in the current investigation. The findings provided a further support that instrument goal could be seen as a meaningful and existent dimension for Chinese students. It also showed that instrument goal was correlated with various kinds of learning strategy and had a positive influence on academic achievement. Future study should pay more attention to instrument goal in studentspsila learning process as well as teacherspsila teaching process.