Dimensional Comparison: How Chinese High School Students Compare Expectancy and Value Beliefs Across Domains (Poster 24)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Friday 1:30 p.m.
  In Poster Session: Patterns, Networks, Trajectories, and More! Exploring Individual Beliefs and Diverse Correlates

Abstract

The present study examined how Chinese high school students’ expectancy-value beliefs could be predicted by their achievement in Math and English domains. Our study aims to extend previous studies by providing a more comprehensive analysis of students’ dimensional comparison processes, incorporating all facets of expectancies and subjective task values. We found positive relationships of grades to subsequent expectancies and task values within the same domain, and negative relationships of grades to expectancies and task values across domains. Among the significant positive relationships within domain, we also observed considerable variations in the strength of regression coefficients across seven facets of expectancy-value beliefs. Our findings provide additional support for dimensional comparison processes beyond academic self-concept, as investigated in previous studies.

Authors

• Yue Sheng, The Ohio State University

• Eric M. Anderman, The Ohio State University