Abideen, Z. U., & Lawanto, O., & Minichiello, A. (2025, June), Correlation between Achievement Goal Orientation and Need for Cognitive Closure among Undergraduate Engineering Students
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . https://peer.asee.org/56152

\bibitem{asee_peer_56152}
  Abideen, Z. U., \& Lawanto, O., \& Minichiello, A. (2025, June), \emph{Correlation between Achievement Goal Orientation and Need for Cognitive Closure among Undergraduate Engineering Students
}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada .
  https://peer.asee.org/56152

Zain ul Abideen, Oenardi Lawanto, and Angela Minichiello P.E..  "Correlation between Achievement Goal Orientation and Need for Cognitive Closure among Undergraduate Engineering Students
".  2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/56152 Internet.  19 Aug, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_56152}
  Zain ul Abideen, Oenardi Lawanto, and Angela Minichiello P.E..
  "Correlation between Achievement Goal Orientation and Need for Cognitive Closure among Undergraduate Engineering Students
".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/56152 Internet.  19 Aug, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - This study aims to investigate the association between the need for cognitive closure and achievement goal orientation among engineering students and their impact on student engagement in problem-based learning. To address the diverse cognitive and motivational learning needs of the students, understanding how these two concepts interact and significantly influence students’ cognitive engagement and learning outcomes is vital. The need for cognitive closure construct that reflects an individual’s desire for a firm answer on a given topic, any answer, and ambiguity aversion will be examined through five facets: order, predictability, decisiveness, discomfort with ambiguity, and close-mindedness, while achievement goal orientation includes performance-driven and mastery-oriented goals. The existing literature in psychological research suggests there is a theoretical link between the need for cognitive closure and achievement goal orientation, while limited research on this relation exists in the engineering discipline. The students with high cognitive closure struggle with mastery objectives as they tend to avoid uncertain and ambiguous situations. This can limit their learning as they are more concerned with dispelling doubts than mastering the learning material.
The primary objective of this research is to explore how the five facets of the need for cognitive closure correlate with the different types of goal orientation (mastery or performance). As part of a larger mixed-methods study, this research seeks to uncover how the need for cognitive closure influences engineering students’ adoption of achievement goal orientation by answering the research question: How is engineering students’ need for cognitive closure associated with achievement goals in problem-based learning? Correlation and regression analysis were used to find the relationship between the five facets of the need for cognitive closure and types of achievement goal orientation. Understanding this relation has implications for designing instructional approaches to better support student learning based on their cognitive preferences and goal orientations, and provides valuable insights into learning outcomes and student engagement. This research provides the grounding for completing a more extensive study.
Keywords: need for cognitive closure, achievement goal orientation, mastery goal orientation, performance goal orientation

AU  - Zain ul Abideen
AU  - Oenardi Lawanto
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CY  - Montreal, Quebec, Canada 
DA  - 2025/06/22
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TI  - Correlation between Achievement Goal Orientation and Need for Cognitive Closure among Undergraduate Engineering Students

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