摘要：The learners are motivated to gain a goal or do a task by approaching to the positive results or avoiding the negative events. While the ones that have the instinct of approaching try to obtain positive results, the ones that have the instinct of avoidance try to avoid the negative results (Elliot, 1999; Atkinson cited in: Darnon et al, 2007). Starting out from these two patterns, the achievement goal orientation theory, one of the most widely used theories to understand the student success instinct in the recent years, was developed. Achievement goal orientation can be defined as the instinct that the learners have to complete the given academic tasks, the belief, feeling, and the attributions on the basis of the learning goal (Ames, 1992). Achievement goal orientation specifies how the learner interprets the events and his/her own efficacy, and how she/he reacts (Dweck & Legett 1988).
