Hsin-ning Jessie Ho

Mental Effort Investment and Its Influencing Factors: the Relationship Between Expertise, Task Difficulty, Self-efficacy, and Mental Effort Investment in Task Performance Hsin-ning Jessie Ho

Why do some students withhold their mental effort in learning or in performing academic tasks? Is this a learning problem or a motivation problem? This book aims to answer this question by analyzing how people's confidence judgement, levels of task expertise, and levels of task difficulty relate to their mental effort investment and task performance. A task performance model was proposed for testing and the contribution of this book is helpful for learning task design and human performance improvement.