Children's Causal Attributions in Success and Failure Situations and Academic Performance
Description:
To determine correlates of better academic performance, a scale was devised for this study to measure children's attributions to ability and effort in academic success and failure situations. These measures as well as measures of locus of control an d perceived contingency of teacher rewards and punishments were related to achievement test scores, grades, and a teacher's ratings of the helplessness or competence of classroom behaviors. Subjects were 137 sixth-graders (66 girls and 71 boys). Int…
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Date:
August 1976
Creator:
Riley, Mary Margaret
Partner:
UNT Libraries