Pablo A. Valdés
Language IX
Crystal Hickerson
Friday 24th, April, 2009
Burns, D. J. “Will I do as well on the final exam as I expect? An examination of students’ expectations.” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 8, No. 3, October 2008: pp. 1 – 19. In this article the author, researcher at Xavier University, tries to test his hypothesis on how students’ expectations influence their performance on a final exam. According to him, levels of anxiety, past performances, absences, self handicapping and the preparation before a test influence the way students take an actual final exam. This is given by the detailed information this article shows on students’ expectations and by the methodology carried out in order to obtain the desired results. Nevertheless, his hypothesis is not widely supported because the results were mixed. The data obtained from this research does not necessarily prove that students’ expectations influence future test performances. Notwithstanding of this, the information contained in this article is useful for teachers who desire to make an improvement on students’ results as part of their own reflective process of teaching. At the same time, it invites to analyze and reflect on the nature of students’ failing at the moment of taking final tests.
Annotation and Book Review Grammar Check
16 years ago
1. Indeed, the annotation goes through the main issues mentioned in the article, and especially by the end of the summary he focuses on how teachers can improve tests scores.
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3. Your annotation it’s fairly specific, but still you should’ve focused even more on the links between the summary and the main topic (students’ scores).
4. Your critique sort of shows how you would use the source, but since your critique is not quite specific, I believe it won’t help you a lot.
5. Yes, although 2008 is with parenthesis.
HI Pablo: These are the corrections for your annotated bibliography. Ciao.
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Pablo A. Valdés
Language IX
Crystal Hickerson
Friday 24th, April, 2009
Burns, D. J. “Will I do as well on the final exam as I expect? An examination of students’ expectations.” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 8, No. 3, October 2008: pp. 1 – 19. In this article the author, researcher at Xavier University, tries to test his hypothesis on how students’ expectations influence their performance(S/P) on a final exam. According to him, levels of anxiety, past performances, absences, self handicapping and the preparation before a test influence the way students take an actual (NA) final exam. This is given by the detailed information this article shows on students’ expectations and by the methodology carried out in order to obtain the desired results. Nevertheless, his hypothesis is not widely supported because the results were mixed. The data obtained from this research does not necessarily prove (WW) that students’ expectations influence future test performances. Notwithstanding of this (λ), the information contained in this article is useful for teachers who desire to make an improvement on students’ results as part of their own reflective process of teaching. At the same time, it invites (λ) to analyze and reflect on the nature of students’ failing at the moment of taking final tests.