With regard to the East Asian students’ paradox, several explanations have been provided. It is argued that social environment interferes in this particular case (Rao et al., 2000), however, Pajares & Miller (1995) claim that, in those studies, SE was assessed with global items of the sort that plagued SE research -e.g., “I am not so good at Mathematics”. Despite of the low self-expectations that Asian students had, in comparison to western students, it was found that SE was positively related to performance within the Asian sample (Rao et al., 2000).