Table 1 presents the means, standard deviations, and Pearson product-moment correlations for all variables in the study. Students averaged a high school math level close to analytical geometry and trigonometry (or pre-calculus), a high level explained by the fact that the sample consisted of university students. Participants had completed an average of 10.3 college credits in math courses. The importance of these variables rested on the fact that social cognitive theory predicts that, although an individual's self-efficacy beliefs are partly based on such prior experience, these beliefs are more strongly predictive of subsequent performance.