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THE EFFECTS OF QUANTITATIVE FEEDBACK ON CHILDREN'S EXPECTATION OF SUCCESS
Author(s) -
CLIFFORD MARGARET M.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1978.tb02388.x
Subject(s) - attribution , luck , psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , theology , philosophy
S ummary . A pair of studies conducted with first, third, and fifth graders supports the prediction that concrete, quantitative feedback, as opposed to qualitative comments, increases the validity of children's expectations of their level of performance. Children were presented with a series of puzzles on which they worked under different feedback conditions. The validity of expectations was examined under two conditions, and also the attributions they made for their levels of performance. These data also confirm previous findings which indicate that overestimation of levels of performance decreases with age. In addition it was found that children's attribution of success to ability decreased with age. Few children at any grade level attributed their performance on these particular puzzles to luck, as opposed to effort.