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Understanding Developmental Processes in Students' Math- and Science-Related Expectancy-Value Beliefs: Why Short-Term Assessments Matter

Sat, April 18, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Virtual Room

Session Type: Symposium

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Students’ expectancy-value beliefs play a critical role in shaping their educational and occupational choices. Longitudinal research grounded in expectancy-value theory has mostly focused on changes in these beliefs over many years. Only recently, researchers have begun to investigate short-term changes in students’ expectancy-value beliefs, which have been linked to academic achievement and persistence in math- and science-related college majors. Expanding upon prior evidence, this symposium focuses on short-term assessments of students’ expectancy-value beliefs in order to explore developmental trajectories of students’ motivation during critical time periods (e.g., transitioning into college), to capture contextual influences on these motivational trajectories, and to better understand the relations between students’ motivational trajectories and their academic achievement.

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