Ny. Wong et D. Watkins, SELF-MONITORING AS A MEDIATOR OF PERSON-ENVIRONMENT FIT - AN INVESTIGATION OF HONG-KONG MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENTS, British journal of educational psychology, 66, 1996, pp. 223-229
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.