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Table 3 Predictors of mastery and performance orientation of undergraduate health profession students: fixed effects of the multivariate multilevel growth model

From: Goal orientations of health profession students throughout the undergraduate program: a multilevel study

 

Mastery

Performance

 

B/SE (β)

B/SE (β)

Intercept

5.39**

4.47**

Time

-0.21/0.04 (-0.42)**

-0.19/0.05 (-0.24)**

Time squared

0.02/< 0.01 (0.21)**

0.02/< 0.01 (0.13)**

Between students

  

 Gender

0.20/0.04 (0.10)**

ns

 High school GPA

-0.13/0.04 (-0.10)**

0.15/0.06 (0.07)**

 Pharmaceutical Sciencesa

ns

0.29/0.08 (0.09)**

 Veterinary Sciencesa

0.19/0.04 (0.10)**

ns

 Self-Efficacy

0.27/0.02 (0.27)**

0.32/0.03 (0.20)**

 Study GPA

0.25/0.06 (0.16)**

0.58/0.09 (0.23)**

 Time* Study GPA

0.05/0.02 (0.70)**

0.07/0.02 (0.62)**

Within students

  

 Self-Efficacy_dev

0.23/0.02 (0.11)**

0.21/0.03 (0.06)**

 Study GPA_dev

ns

ns

Δχ2 (deviance)

-6472.01

  1. Note. B refers to unstandardized effects, SE refers to the standard errors of these effects, and β refers to the standardized effect. Between student variance for mastery and performance was 0.576** and 1.352**. Within student variance was 0.259** and 0.458**
  2. * p < .05; ** p < .01 (all tested one-sided)
  3. a reference group is Medical Sciences
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