Abstract
The primary aim of the study was to examine achievement orientation as a predictor of students GPA in the fourth year of medical study mediated by the self-reported study strategy The secondary aim was to test psychometric parameters of the Achievement Goal Questionnaire as the prerequisite for the primary aim. Subjects and setting The subjects consisted of 94 students of medicine (31 men, 63 women, average age 23,15, SD = 0,08, range 22 - 25 years) The self-reported data were collected at the beginning of the seven semester and the exam results from the faculty register at the end of the academic year Participation was voluntary, nonanonymous, and conditional on the Informed consent.
Statistical analysis Relations among variables based on an estimate of the asymptotic sampling covariance matrix of the polychoric sample correlations, were analyzed by structural equation modeling using Maximum Likelihood estimation. Results Analysis of data brought acceptable support for (a) the proposed model assuming mediation effect of study strategy on the relationship between achievement orientation and exam performance Model accounted for 17 % of the GPA variance "explained" by predictors mediated by study strategy which is about 10 % more in comparison with direct effect of the achievement orientation on the GPA without mediation, (b) confirmatory factor analysis results also supported the existence of the 4 achievement orientation constructs in medical study context