Brief Goal Orientation Questionnaire (BGCQ)

The Brief Goal Orientation Questionnaire (BGOQ; Alonso-Tapia & Nieto, 2025) was developed to assess this construct across the three dimensions of students' mastery, performance, and avoidance goal orientations. This instrument constitutes an abbreviated form of the Motivation, Expectancies and Values Questionnaire (MEVA; Alonso-Tapia, 2005).

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Assessment Type:

Inventory/Questionnaire

Scale:

Likert 5-point scale

Publication Date:

Jul 14, 2025

Respondent:

student

Domain(s) Evaluated:

Engagement

Sample items:

Even though I study to prepare for an exam, what interests me most is learning what I study; If I have to do a class assignment, what I think first is whether it will help me get a good grade

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Validity:

Frequency:

Rarely

Administration time:

0 minutes

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Primary reference:

Alonso-Tapia, J., & Nieto, C. (2025). A brief questionnaire to assess goal orientations: Development and validity. Anales de Psicología, 41(2), 233–244. https://doi.org/10.6018/analesps.632981