Exploring Differential Effects of SEVT (Situated Expectancy Value Theory) on Achievement and Achievement-Related Choices Across Cultural Milieu

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Abstract

Recent research on learners’ self-beliefs and task-value perceptions has placed greater focus on
achievement-related choices and outcomes, and the introduction of situativity into expectancy value theory has drawn attention to ways cultural milieu shapes learning. In an undergraduate biology course, we explored the ways in which learners’ expectancies, values, and cost shape their choices to engage with resources on a digital supplemental learning platform. We modeled relations among self- and task beliefs, choices, and performance and examined how relations differed across subpopulations as an approximation of a dimension of cultural milieu. Beliefs explained variances in choices and choices influenced outcomes for the whole sample (N=603). Multigroup modeling and invariance testing revealed several group differences among relations between variables.

Authors

• Michael Abdul Ghani Berro, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Leiming Ding, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Sirui Ren, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Robert D Plumley, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Christina Hollander-Blackmon, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Linyu Yu, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Nancy Webb, College of Southern Nevada

• Erin Windsor, College of Southern Nevada

• Jonathan C. Hilpert, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

• Jeff A. Greene, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Matthew L. Bernacki, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill