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Rinn, Anne N.; Boazman, Janette – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
The purposes of the current study were to evaluate a measure of academic dishonesty and examine high ability college students' loci of control and its effect on behaviors of academic dishonesty, as moderated by academic self-concept. A total of 357 high ability college students enrolled at two universities in the southwestern United States took…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Self Concept, Academic Ability, Cheating
Marsh, Herbert W.; And Others – 1981
The Self Description Questionnaire (SDQ) is a multidimensional instrument designed to measure seven facets of self-concept hypothesized in Shavelson's hierarchical model. The SDQ, along with measures of attributions and academic achievement, was administered to primary school students from two quite diverse populations. Separate factor analyses of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades
Marsh, Herbert W. – 1984
The self-serving effect (SSE), often depicted as a bias, is the tendency to accept responsibility for one's own successes but not one's own failures. Two studies of Australian fifth graders (n=226, n=559) were further analyzed to investigate individual differences in SSE. The Sydney Attribution Scale measured students' perceptions of the causes of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance