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Peer reviewedParkes, Jay – Educational Research, 2000
Data from 77 ninth-grade Spanish students who took an objective test, a performance assessment, and a measure of perceptions of control indicate that control perceptions predict scores on performance assessments, not objective tests. Performance assessments thus reflect motivational variables beyond the constructs being tested. (SK)
Descriptors: High Schools, Locus of Control, Motivation, Objective Tests
