| How task experience influences students' performance expectancies: the role of certainty. | |
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PMID: 22238846 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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The importance of performance expectancies for predicting behavior has long been highlighted in research on expectancy-value models. These models do not take into account that expectancies may vary in terms of their certainty. The study tested the following predictions: task experience leads to a higher certainty of expectancies; certainty and mean expectancies are empirically distinguishable; and expectancies held with high certainty are more accurate for predicting performance. 273 Grade 8 students reported their performance expectancy and the certainty of expectation with regard to a mathematics examination immediately before and after the examination. Actual grades on the examination were also assessed. The results supported the predictions: there was an increase in certainty between the two times of measurement; expectancies and certainty were unrelated at both times of measurement; and for students initially reporting higher certainty, the accuracy of the performance expectancy (i.e., the relation between expectancy and performance) was higher than for students reporting lower certainty. Given lower certainty, the accuracy increased after the students had experience with the examination. The data indicate that it may be useful to include certainty as an additional variable in expectancy-value models. |
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Oliver Dickhäauser; Marc-André Reinhard; Chris Englert |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
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Title: Psychological reports Volume: 109 ISSN: 0033-2941 ISO Abbreviation: Psychol Rep Publication Date: 2011 Oct |
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Created Date: 2012-01-13 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0376475 Medline TA: Psychol Rep Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 380-8 Citation Subset: IM |
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School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany. oliver.dickhaeuser@uni-mann-heim.de |
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