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Filtering by: Creator DePiero, Anthony H. Conference Name Celebration of Undergraduate Excellence

Class Standing and Success: Do Freshmen Have Lower Self-Efficacy & Goal Achievement for "Difficult" Goals?

Creator:

Carlson, Rebecca and Almuaybid, Ameer

Abstract:

Do freshmen achieve less of their personal and academic short-term goals in comparison to upperclassmen? Some may intuitively assume that due to age, or lack of experience, college freshmen would have lower perceived task-specific ability (self-efficacy) and actually achieve less (goal-completion ranging from 0% to 100%). Differences between various class-standing...

Resource Type:

Poster

Full Text:

success. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 83(1), 231-244. 5. Mento, Anthony J., Edwin A