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When competence and confidence are at odds: A cross-country examination of the ...
Hansen Yang, Kajsa; Thorsen, Cecilia; Radišić, Jelena; Peixoto, Francisco; Laine, Anu; Liu, XinResearch has shown that some students who underperform in mathematics overestimate their performance, while others who excel in mathematics underestimate it. Looking at this mismatch of performance and confidence judgement—the Dunning–Kruger effect (DKE)—the current study investigates how well students’ confidence judgement and itemspecific mathematics competence relate with each other and whether such a relati...
Contribution to the validation of the expectancy-value scale for primary school...
Peixoto, Francisco; Radišić, Jelena; Kesegi-Krstin, Ksenija; Hansen, Brian Benjamin; Laine, Anu; Baucal, Aleksandar; Sõrmus, Maarja; Mata, LourdesGrounded in ‘expectancy-value’ theory, this paper reports on the psychometric properties of an instrument intended to measure students’ motivation in mathematics. The participants were 2045 third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students from Estonia, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Serbia and Sweden. The Expectancy-Value Scale (EVS) was found to be suitable for early grades of primary education in measuring competence sel...