The Relationship of Grade Expectations and Grades Believed to be Deserved to Actual Grades Received

Abstract

THE COLLEGE student, along with his f e 11 o w I mammal, white rat, has provided psychologists with much of material of which textbooks are made. The student's perception of dirty words has been analyzed and counteranalyzed on many oc casions. His ability to anticipate blinking red light is very good, particularly when threatened with shock. The dependence or lack of dependence on stimulus field of his perceptual processes when whirled in a chair has been thoroughly ob served. Yet, these activities, while they gladden heart of researcher, have little im pac t on king of subjects, college student Little is known of his behavior in a naturalistic yet strong ly ego-involving setting, college. It is intent of this study to investigate stu dent's behavior with regard to one of strongest ego-involved pursuits comprising his behavior ? the good grade. Can students accurately predict their final grades at beginning of term? Is this predictive ability a function of grade they ultimately receive? Do students expect to get grade they deserve (i. e. deserve from their point of view) ? What of relationship of grade de served to grade received? Moreover, with re gard to above question, are there differences between high and low grade students? To answer these questions four variables were studied: Expectancy 1, Expectancy 2,Grade Deserved, and Grade Received. All Ss were examined with regard to differences between any two variables for all possible combinations. Ss were studied for those changing their grade pre diction from one variable to other as compared to those not changing. Of those changing, di rection of change also was evaluated. The details are presented in procedure. METHOD

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