I haven't stayed up on this kind of research, but from what I recall of some major studies in the US in the past, there is an inverse correlation between expressed self-confidence and social standing. Thus, black children in the US, with far fewer actual prospects for future success, express much higher levels of self-confidence than white children.
Indeed, I'm surprised no one in this conversation has yet picked up on the word 'bravado': in my part of the English-speaking world, at least, it refers to false bravery, a front for feelings of inadequacy. Whatever it may have meant to these researchers, they ought at least to have known enough basic human psychology to realize that the real feelings of inadequacy may lie in just the opposite camp from where *they* placed them. Correspondingly, the solutions to achievement problems may be exactly the opposite of what they are preaching. FC On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Gerry Orkin wrote: > I wrote: >> I'm happy to see your references to research that shows >> that girls are overconfident and have an overinflated sense of their >> language skills. > "In areas related to language arts, male and female students > exhibit similar confidence despite the fact that the achievement of > female students is typically greater". > > Frank Pajares is your man for this stuff. The above is from Pajares, > F, Gender and perceived self-efficacy in self-regulated learning, > Theory Into Practice, Spring-Autumn, 2002. > > Gerry > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/4It09A/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/pyIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boysed/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boysed/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
