Another limitation of the current study was that it did not examine students' perceptions of their learning environments or self-efficacy beliefs. Recent research has shown that students in the same grade or learning context will often interpret classroom goal structures or teacher expectations in divergent ways (Urdan & Midgley, 2003). This issue is important to consider because it suggests that student interpretations of the challenges or requirements of specific contexts and learning environments may be more important, at times, than actual contexts in which they are expected to learn (Hadwin et al., 2001). A fruitful area of future research involves examining the effects of different contexts concurrently with students' interpretations of those contexts on their regulatory and motivated behaviors. It is also important for future research to include measures of self-efficacy in order to understand how a broader range of motivational beliefs impact students' regulatory behaviors and achievement. Developing causal path models that integrate efficacy beliefs, task interest, goal orientation, and self-standards can yield important information about whether specific motivational beliefs exhibit direct or indirect effects on important academic outcomes and behaviors.