Students’ achievement task values, goal orientations, and interest are
motivation-related constructs which concern students’ purposes and
reasons for doing achievement activities. The authors review the
extant research on these constructs and describe and compare many
of the most frequently used measures of these constructs. They also
discuss their development during childhood and adolescence. They
review the research on the relations of these constructs to achievement
outcomes, and their relations to each other both contiguously
and over time. Suggestions for future research include testing theoretically
derived predictions about how students’ achievement values,
goal orientations, and interest together predict various
achievement outcomes; and examining how their relations with
one another become established and change over time.