Fakhri Sadat Hossaini (MA); Syavash Taleh Pasand (PhD; Iman Bigdeli (PhD)
Volume 6, Issue 18 , October 2010, , Pages 40-73
Abstract
his study has been done to find out the relationship of task value, ability/expectancy beliefs, perception of task difficulty, locus of control comparison of previous and subsequent chemistry achievement and also testing the Eccles and Wigfield’s model. To achieve this purpose, 200 female students ...
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his study has been done to find out the relationship of task value, ability/expectancy beliefs, perception of task difficulty, locus of control comparison of previous and subsequent chemistry achievement and also testing the Eccles and Wigfield’s model. To achieve this purpose, 200 female students were chosen from Tehran public high schools among several processes and accidental sampling (119 students studied empirical science and the rest, 81 students, studied mathematics).
All of them filled out the Semnan's Expectancy-value (SVEQ) and Rotter's Locus of Control questionnaire. Data were analyzed with hierarchical regression. The findings showed that task the value could predict the subsequent chemistry achievement in the first model, but the task value had no role in predicting it in the second one when it juxtapose the ability/expectancy beliefs. In the 3rd model the perception of task difficulty was added to those two predicting items which was able to predict the subsequent achievement in reverse order. In the 4th model the locus of control was added to the 3rd models which manifest a meaningful effect in prognosticating the chemistry achievement. In the 2nd-4th the task value couldn’t predict the subsequent achievement. In the 5th model the ability of model prediction increased significantly in addition to previous achievement to the rest of predicting items. In general, all findings of this study fit into the expectancy-value theory frame work and on the other hand it’s compatible and confirms the previous attempting findings.
