SELF-MONITORING AS A MEDIATOR OF PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT - AN INVESTIGATION OF HONG-KONG MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENTS

The research literature indicates that students tend to achieve better in a learning environment close to their preference. It was hypothesi sed that the congruence between the preferred and actual classroom env ironments would have an effect on students' learning and the impact wo uld be more salient among low rather than high self-monitoring individ uals since the latter can more easily adapt themselves to situations. This hypothesis was supported by regression surface analyses in a stud y of 356 Hong Kong secondary school students using an instrument devel oped to assess the psychosocial environment of Hong Kong mathematics c lassrooms.