Journal article

Publication year: 2005

Pages: 219-224

Journal: German Journal of Educational Psychology

Volume number: 19

Issue number: 4

ISSN: 1010-0652

eISSN: 1664-2910

Open access status: Green

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1024/1010-0652.19.4.219

Publisher: Hogrefe

Abstract: 
Studies in educational psychology often use students' self-reports on their school marks as an indicator of students' performance. In the present study we compared self-reports on marks from the last class test and from the last report in mathematics with the marks as reported by the teacher. There was a strong correlation between self-reported and actual marks, however, students overestimated their marks. The accuracy of the self-report did not depend meaningfully on student's gender, mathematical self-concept and mathematical achievement (as measured by a standardized math test).

Harvard Citation style: Dickhäuser, O. and Plenter, I. (2005) On the accuracy of self-reported school marks, German Journal of Educational Psychology, 19(4), pp. 219-224. https://doi.org/10.1024/1010-0652.19.4.219

APA Citation style: Dickhäuser, O., & Plenter, I. (2005). On the accuracy of self-reported school marks. German Journal of Educational Psychology. 19(4), 219-224. https://doi.org/10.1024/1010-0652.19.4.219