Expectancy-Value Theory predicts that expectancy of success and subjective task value (STV) underlie differences in motivation achievement. This study investigated how gender SES related to achievement mediated by success, STV, their interaction. The sample consisted 396 participants final year upper secondary education. Self-report measures were completed expectancy, socio-economic indicators....

Student satisfaction is a key strategic variable in maintaining a competitive position in the international education market by Australian universities. The universities are facing the challenge of rising student expectations of quality, service and value for money, and the need to increase the satisfaction level of their students to retain and improve international student numbers. This proces...

A study containing four experiments provided evidence in favour of assimilation effects in retrospective duration judgments due to temporal expectations. In this study, the participants did not know in advance that they would have to reproduce the duration of a target interval. Temporal expectations were induced prior to the target interval by the repeated presentation of a visually filled inte...

The present study investigated test-taking motivation in L2 listening testing context by applying Expectancy-Value Theory as the framework. Specifically, this study was intended to examine the complex relationships among expectancy, importance, interest, listening anxiety, listening metacognitive awareness, and listening test score using data from a large-scale and high-stakes language test amo...

Best practice life expectancy has recently been modeled using extreme value theory. In this paper we present the Gumbel autoregressive model of order one—Gumbel AR(1)—as an option for modeling best expectancy. This class represents a neat and coherent framework time series extremes. The distribution accounts nature expectancy, while AR structure temporal dependence in series. Model diagnostics ...

Abstract Social, motivational, and instructional factors impact students’ outcomes in STEM learning their career paths. Based on prior research expectancy-value theory, the study further explored how multiple affect students context of integrated learning. High school teachers participated summer professional development taught to during following year, where scientific inquiry, biomimicry, 3D ...

Expectancy theory is applied to the use of software that secures the testing environment of in-class examinations. This security software prohibits students from viewing unauthorized material during an examination. The empirical study collected 60 student questionnaire responses completed after using the security software. These responses were used to develop measures for a model derived from e...

This study presents and tests a research model of the psychological, behavioral, and benefit outcomes of information literacy instruction (ILI) given to undergraduate business students. This model is based on expectation disconfirmation theory and insights garnered from a recent qualitative investigation by the research team on student learning outcomes from ILI given at three business schools ...

Although feature updates are a ubiquitous phenomenon in both professional and private IT usage, they have to date received little attention in the IS post-adoption literature. Drawing on expectationconfirmation theory and the IS continuance literature, we investigate whether, when and how incremental feature updates affect users’ continuance intentions (CI). Based on a controlled laboratory exp...

Life history theory aims to explain the relationship between life events, recognizing that the fertility and growth schedules of organisms are dependent on environmental conditions and an organism’s ability to extract resources from its environment. Using models from life history theory, we predict life expectancy to be positively correlated with educational investments and negatively correlate...