Brooke Flew, Belinda Judd, Belinda Lange, Darren Lee, Felicity Blackstock, Joanna Tai, Kathryn Tognon, Lucy Chipchase
Understanding underperformance in a high-stakes clinical-based simulation assessment in physiotherapy: a descriptive analysis
BMC medical education
study investigates whether extent students selfefficacy mathematics affected levelmarked mathematics tasks online survey experimental design used collect data lower secondary school students norway n 436 effect levelmarked mathematics tasks measured comparing students responses tasks level marking responses tasks marked easy medium difficult studys design set carefully featuring experimental control groups wilcoxon test showed significant gap students selfefficacy approaching tasks without level marking difficultlevel marking addition friedman test showed gap students selfefficacy encountering task without level marking expanded significantly increasing difficulty markings result implications students terms mathematics learning mathematics teachers terms future differentiation initiatives