Students΄ value beliefs, performance expectations, and school performance : the effect of school subject and gender
Part of : Hellenic journal of psychology ; Vol.5, No.3, 2008, pages 231-257
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This study investigated (a) students' performance expectations, value beliefs,and performance in mathematics, ancient Greek, physics, and language, (b) the role ofstudents' performance expectations and value beliefs in the perception of their schoolperformance as successful or unsuccessful in the above school subjects, and (c) genderdifferences in performance expectations, value beliefs, and school performance. Thesample comprised 190 girls and 160 boys of 8th grade. The results showed that (a)performance expectations, value beliefs, and school performance differed betweenschool subjects (most valuable was considered mathematics, highest performance wasexpected in physics, best performance was achieved in language); (b) value beliefs and,mainly, performance expectations predicted the perception of performance as successfulor not, while their relative power in discriminating the perceived successful fromunsuccessful performance group of students varied across school subjects, and (c) gendereffects were school subject-specific rather than global, with language being clearlyfavoured by girls.
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gender, performance expectations, value beliefs
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