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The Impact of Metacognitive Knowledge, Achievement Orientation, and Anxiety on Test Performance

... worry, test-irrelevant thinking, and bodily symptoms. According to the author of
the Reactions to Tests questionnaire, "test-anxiety measures that deal with the
thoughts people have while being evaluated are more consistently related to
performance than are test-anxiety measures that deal with emotional reactions in
the same situations" (Sarason, 1984, p. 934). This implies that an appropriate
measure of trait anxiety would be the worry scale alone. However, correlations
between all ...

What We Learned From Pisa: The Outstanding Performance Of Students In Hong Kong And East Asia

The outstanding performance of East Asian societies in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is one of the most widely discussed topics in international assessments. PISA is a worldwide study of scholastic performance, conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), of 15-year old pupils in mathematics, science and reading. This book provides readers with a comprehensive view on the excellent performance of students in Hong Kong and East Asian societies based on solid empirical data from the first five cycles of the PISA study from 2000 to 2012. Adopting a broad perspective, this book links the performance of students to themselves, their families and respective schools — the three major selves and social contexts that exert powerful influence on young people in Hong Kong. It is unique that the book does not only define student outcomes narrowly as cognitive performance on various tests in PISA, but also employs a number of affective indicators, such as students' self-regulated learning, their self-concept measures, and attitudes towards learning. The book argues that schooling is a complex enterprise, and the relationships between school outcomes and the larger families, schools, and societal contexts are even more complex. The book utilizes summary statistics and multivariate methods to investigate how various measures of student outcomes are influenced by these contextual factors.

580 518 Memorisation Elaboration Control Strategies Understanding and
remembering 570 460 565 564 560 540 539 544 540 546 549 552 540 537 527
523 532 532 520 520 500 490 491 493 480 Summarising Bottom quarter Second
quarter Third quarter Top quarter metacognition indices have strong positive
impacts on students' reading performance. Table 8.5 shows the correlation
between the indices of learning strategies, metacognition and reading
performance of Hong ...

Metacognitive Awareness and Performance on Assessment Tasks in Reading

This book provides a theoretical-practical framework that links assessment practice to learning theory by synthesizing three theoretical axis of learning: Schema theory - emphasizing the role of prior knowledge in learning; Metacognitive Awareness theory - profiling an expert reader; and the Vygotskian notion of the Zone of Proximal Development - extending and facilitating learners' cognitive abilities and performance by providing a "psychological tool." Increasing learners' metacognitive awareness by applying MetaCognitive Awareness Guidance to reading assessment tasks will not only facilitates students' learning and improve their reading comprehension but will also increase their chances of internalizing the guidance components and applying them in changing learning situations. The research also emphasizes on how teachers' perspectives, thoughts and opinions play a critical role in applying MCAG in teaching. The book focuses on reading assessment that better serve the goals of reliability and validity, and facilitate the kind of assessment that will benefit our students the most, the kind of assessment to which our students are entitled.

This book provides a theoretical-practical framework that links assessment practice to learning theory by synthesizing three theoretical axis of learning: Schema theory - emphasizing the role of prior knowledge in learning; Metacognitive ...

An Examination of the Relationship Between Certification Team Effectiveness and Team Performance

Information technology and E-Government services are vital to the operation of the federal agencies and the functioning of American society as a whole. In the past ten years, and particularly since September 11, 2001, numerous laws, policies, and regulations have been enacted to help secure the federal information infrastructure. Despite legislation and policy changes, and despite annual reports to both the Office of Management and Budget and Congress, the status of the national infrastructure continues to be unsatisfactory. The literature suggests that modifications to certification and accreditation (C&A) team effectiveness can improve productivity, which in turn, should lead to significant enhancement of information security programs. This study investigated the extent to which team effectiveness affected the cycle time and quality of a key component of the C&A processthe System Security Plan (SSP). The Team Effectiveness Profile (TEP) was utilized to measure the dimensions of team effectiveness among teams assigned to the task of creating an SSP during a three-day training course. Performance of the teams was assessed with respect to cycle time and quality of the SSP produced. The findings indicated that team effectiveness had the potential to influence C&A team performance in the production of the SSP.

Team Profiles Based on TEP Score Given this indication of relationships among
the variables, a further examination of the effectiveness of each team was
conducted. Table 1 1 presents the frequency and distribution of each group's
effectiveness rating for each dimension of the TEP, as well as the frequency
distribution for the combined sample. Table 11 Team Effectiveness As Perceived
by Group A and Group B Participants Using the guidelines provided by the TEP
instrument, the ...

The Effectiveness of Performance Appraisal Systems: Employee Relations and Human Resource Management

Performance Appraisals (PA) is a tool which is associated with employee performance evaluation. Researchers tend to disagree on the effectiveness of these systems. Academics claim that PAs improve employees’ performance through commitment, motivation and output increases, whilst providing an optimal basis for a reward system and training needs. Conversely, it is argued that PAs are flawed from inception since they are subjective, biased and unfair. The study critically assesses research on PAs and their effectiveness towards company goals, whilst identifying a set of criteria to test the extent of their effectiveness. The findings reject the notion that PAs are totally flawed and ineffective. The investigation discloses that HR Practitioners experience difficulties in assessing PAs fairness. The author recommends a number of initiatives to improve appraisees’ productivity as a direct result of PAs outcome, thus ensuring their effectiveness. Although the study reaffirms the scholars’ claim that PAs effectiveness is a very debatable subject, HR Practitioners still consider PAs as vital to manage employee performance throughout the foreseeable future.

Performance Appraisals (PA) is a tool which is associated with employee performance evaluation.

Examining the effectiveness of the Veterans Benefits Administration's training, performance management and accountability

hearing before the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, September 18, 2008

The Routledge Companion to Performance Management and Control

Performance management is key to the ongoing success of any organisation, allowing it to meet its strategic objectives by designing and implementing management control systems. This book goes beyond the usual discussion of performance management in accounting and finance, to consider strategic management, human behaviour and performance management in different countries and contexts. With a global mix of world-renowned researchers, this book systematically covers the what, the who, the where and the why of performance management and control (PMC) systems. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art collection edited by a leading expert in the field, this book is a vital resource for all scholars, students and researchers with an interest in business, management and accounting.

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. & Lok, P. 2008. Convergence and divergence issues in strategic management—
Indonesia's experience with the balanced scorecard in HR management. The
International Journal of Human Resource Management, 19, 1170–1185. Robert,
M. L., Albright, T. L. & Hibbets, A. R. 2004. Debiasing balanced scorecard
evaluations. Behavioral Research in Accounting, 16, 75–88. Ross, A. 1994. Trust
as a ...

Antecedents and Consequences of Fairness in Performance Evaluation Processes

The objectives of this thesis are: (1) to investigate the antecedents and consequences of fairness of performance evaluation processes (procedural fairness) in the context of performance measurement, evaluation, and reward systems; and (2) to investigate the behavioural effects of reliance on multiple performance measures (RMPM) in evaluating subordinates' performance. In relation to the first objective, it examines whether managers' perceptions of procedural fairness are influenced by the form (financial or nonfinancial) of performance measures used to evaluate performance, and by goal-related variables such as participation in setting performance targets, the goal-attainment-reward link, and the specificity of goals to be achieved by managers. With regard to the consequences of procedural fairness, it examines the effects of procedural fairness on job satisfaction, performance, organisational commitment, and goal commitment, and also examines whether any such associations are direct or indirect. In relation to the second objective, it examines whether RMPM affects managerial performance or whether the effect is contingent on goal difficulty and goal specificity. To address these objectives, this thesis draws on organisational justice theory and goal theory and employs both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Quantitative data are collected using a questionnaire survey sent to managers in four organisations and qualitative data are gathered by means of interviews and focus group discussions within the organisations. The results indicate that procedural fairness is affected by participation in setting performance targets, the goal-attainment-reward link, and the specificity of goals to be achieved by managers, but not by the type of performance measure used to evaluate performance. With regard to the consequences of procedural fairness, the results indicate that: (1) the effects of procedural fairness on job satisfaction and performance are indirect and fully mediated by distributive fairness, trust, and organisational commitment; (2) the effect of procedural fairness on organisational commitment is partially mediated by distributive fairness and trust; and (3) the effect of procedural fairness on goal commitment is partially mediated by trust. Finally, the results indicate that the effect of RMPM on performance is contingent on goal specificity, but not on goal difficulty.

The objectives of this thesis are: (1) to investigate the antecedents and consequences of fairness of performance evaluation processes (procedural fairness) in the context of performance measurement, evaluation, and reward systems; and (2) ...