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Students' Expectancies and Values After the Transition to Higher Education: A Situated Perspective

Thu, April 21, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT (11:30am to 1:00pm PDT), Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: North Building, Lobby Level, Marriott Grand Ballroom 2

Session Type: Symposium

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Students’ expectancy-value beliefs play a critical role in shaping their educational and occupational choices. Grounded in situated expectancy-value theory, researchers have begun to investigate changes in these beliefs over short-time periods (e.g., one semester), which have been linked to academic achievement and long-term persistence in college. Expanding upon prior evidence, this symposium examines situation-specific changes in students’ expectancy-value beliefs shortly after the transition to college across diverse STEM contexts, as well as the role of students’ motivational beliefs at the beginning of college as a potential predictor of subsequent motivational changes and end-of-term academic outcomes. Analyses of reciprocal links among students’ situated expectancy-value beliefs across their first semester explore how students’ motivations develop after the transition to postsecondary education.

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