VCE results impact upon students' career and study choices. In this thesis, situational and dispositional variables were assessed pre and during VCE as indicators of students' grades. A complex interplay of variables was present, but it was students' self-beliefs and their goals, within the competitiveness of VCE, that best predicted performance
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Submitted to the School of Psychology of the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University