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ERIC Number: EJ414268
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0361-476X
Test Expectancy and Performance on Factual and Higher-Level Questions.
Feldt, Ronald C.
Contemporary Educational Psychology, v15 n3 p212-23 Jul 1990
The effect of test expectancy on preferred strategy use and test performance on factual and higher-level questions in learning from expository text was studied, using 42 undergraduates who reported their study strategies and completed a multiple-choice test. Test expectancy affected neither preferred strategy use nor test performance. (SLD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Multiple Choice Tests, Performance Factors, Study Skills, Test Results, Test Wiseness, Thinking Skills, Undergraduate Students
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Expository Text; Test Expectancy