Motivation,ability, and exam performance: Tests of hypotheses of cultural difference and task difficulty |
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Authors: | Ramadhar Singh Shivganesh Bhargava |
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Affiliation: | Organizational Behavior Area, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India |
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Abstract: | In a series of three experiments, prediction of exam performance from information about motivation and ability of students was studied. The factorial plot of the Motivation × Ability effect on predicted performance always yielded the parallelism pattern with subjects from both the student and nonstudent populations. Results agreed with the hypothesis of cultural difference between America and India. Manipulation of difficulty of exam did not alter the parallelism pattern, contrary to the specification of the hypothesis of task difficulty. Difficulty of exam affected only the origin of the response scale. Implications of results were discussed for the two tested hypotheses as well as for a new hypothesis of nature of task. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to Ramadhar Singh Organizational Behavior Area Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad 380 015 Gujarat India. |
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