Predicting how students perceive their academic competencies in lessons by their personality traits

What is it about?

This study suggests that students’ perceptions of their academic abilities (i.e., academic self-concept) undergo short-term fluctuations from school lesson to school lesson and that these fluctuations can partly be explained by students’ personality.

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Why is it important?

Our findings advances our theoretical understanding of academic self-concept as one of the most important motivational factors in educational contexts and highlights the relevance of personality as a set of noncognitive traits for students’ daily academic motivation.