TABLE 6.

Spearman’s rho correlations between the dependent and independent variables in study 2.

	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
Self-perceived EFs N	0.28*** 175	0.25** 147	0.17* 179	0.24*** 195	0.04 214
CITO final achievement test N		0.80*** 149	0.75*** 181	0.54*** 168	−0.01 184
CITO mathematics N			0.60*** 157	0.43*** 139	−0.01 157
CITO reading comprehension N				0.43*** 173	0.03 191
LPE N					−0.13 215
Sex (0 = boy, 1 = girl) N

Higher skill scores on the CITO Mathematics and CITO Reading Comprehension tests and higher achievement on the CITO Final Achievement Test indicate better performance; *p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001.