“…L. W. Anderson (1997, p. 893) identified social desirability and acquiescence as key threats to valid and reliable measurement of self-report data. However, there is a substantial body of literature that shows consistent and moderate correlations between self-appraisals and the ratings of others, including clinicians, teachers, and parents, in a variety of domains, including personality assessment (Domken, Scott, & Kelly, 1994), gambling behaviour (Hodgins & Makarchuk, 2003), social phobias (Newman, Kachin, Zuellig, Constantino & Cashman-McGrath 2003), and verbal reasoning and mathematics ability (Wilson & Wright, 1993). Individual differences in students' self-efficacies for each of the generic skills may influence the results of this study (Martin & Debus, 1998).…”