Which one of the following students clearly has a mastery goal rather than a performance goal?
A) Alice stays away from science courses because she's never done very well in science.
B) Boris wants the recognition that being a star football player will bring him.
C) Cal is relieved to learn he passed his English composition course.
D) Dinah doesn't worry about making mistakes as long as she knows she's making progress.
Question 2
When Scott was first learning how to write, he wrote quickly and sloppily, without regard for how his papers looked. But his teachers praised him regularly for writing carefully and legibly, and eventually he began to pride himself on his neat and careful handwriting. This transition can best be described as:
A) Acquiring an external attribution for neat and careful handwriting.
B) Internalizing the value of neat and careful handwriting.
C) Developing situational interest in neat and careful handwriting.
D) Developing extrinsic motivation for neat and careful handwriting.