Gender and Motivated Self-Regulation: Patterns, Benefits, and Costs

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This international symposium presents new research utilizing diverse samples, theoretical perspectives, designs, and measures to advance understanding of the nature, dynamics, antecedents, and consequences of gendered patterns of motivated self-evaluation and regulation. Studied variables include self-evaluative information-seeking, biases and judgments, cheating, help seeking, and teacher evaluations. In common, presenters consider both gender differences and gender similarities in the levels of variables and in associations among them. Another shared focus is on analysing the benefits and costs of gendered patterns for both males and females. Together, the studies show how gender still matters, in both expected and some surprising ways. The emphasis on motivated self-regulation in achievement settings suggests new directions for educational interventions.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Motivation in Education

Chair

• Ruth Butler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Papers

• Gender and Self-Evaluation: Costs and Benefits of Proving and Improving - Ruth Butler, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Student Gender and Teachers' Grading and Written Feedback on Math or Language Assignments - Susanne Narciss, Technische Universitaet Dresden; Carolin Schuster, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

• Do Men or Women Cheat More on Exams? How Moral and Motivational Factors Accompany Gender Differences - Sofia Eleftheria N. Gonida, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Stuart A. Karabenick, University of Michigan; Maria Tzasta, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

• Gender Differences in Help Seeking: More Complex Than Men Versus Women - Stuart A. Karabenick, University of Michigan; Sofia Eleftheria N. Gonida, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Discussant

• Deborah Stipek, Stanford University