Causal attributions of students and student-proctors for performance on a university examination |
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| Authors: | Susan A Wyatt Frederic J Medway |
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| Institution: | University of South Carolina U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Undergraduate psychology students rated the importance of several causes of examination outcomes both prior to and after taking a course exam. Similar attributions were made by advanced psychology students who served as course proctors. Students rated proctor characteristics as more important and their own characteristics as less important determinants of exam outcomes, particularly successful outcomes. Results suggested that positivity biases rather than egotism biases are operative in actual classroom settings. Further, contrary to expectancyconfirmation theory, student and proctor preexamination confidence was not strongly related to postexamination attributions. |
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| Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to Dr Frederic J Medway Department of Psychology University of South Carolina Columbia SC 29208 |
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