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dc.contributor.authorLizzio, Alfred
dc.contributor.authorWilson, Keithia
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-08T12:00:42Z
dc.date.available2017-06-08T12:00:42Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-06-16T04:38:02Z
dc.identifier.issn02602938
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02602938.2011.637156
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/60194
dc.description.abstractThis study investigated students' appraisals of assessment tasks and the impact of this on both their task-related efficacy and engagement and subsequent task performance. Two hundred and fifty-seven first-year students rated their experience of an assessment task (essay, oral presentation, laboratory report or exam) that they had previously completed. First-year students evaluated these assessment tasks in terms of two general factors: the motivational value of the task and its manageability. Students' evaluations were consistent across a range of characteristics and level of academic achievement. Students' evaluations of motivational value generally predict their engagement and their evaluations of task manageability generally predict their sense of task efficacy. Engagement was a significant predictor of task performance (viz. actual mark) for exam and laboratory report tasks but not for essay-based tasks. Findings are discussed in terms of the implications for assessment design and management.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom389
dc.relation.ispartofpageto406
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAssessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
dc.relation.ispartofvolume38
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist studies in education not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode39
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode390499
dc.titleFirst-year students' appraisal of assessment tasks: implications for efficacy, engagement and performance
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, Griffith Institute of Higher Education
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorLizzio, Alfred J.
gro.griffith.authorWilson, Keithia K.


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