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Butkowsky, Irwin S. – 1980
The relationships of children's perceptions of the causes of academic success or failure to achievement behavior and to reading ability were examined using two measures: Crandall's Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Scale (IAR), and a measure of students' causal attributions relating to performance of a single, specific task. Subjects were…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Attribution Theory, Grade 5, Helplessness
Download full textJohnston, Dennis A.; Sherman, Martin F. – 1993
Numerous studies on death anxiety report conflicting findings. Concluding that a lack of specificity may explain the mixed results, this study sought to address the lack of focus and to extend and validate the results of an earlier study. A sample of 152 undergraduate students (111 female) from middle to upper-middle class participated. Subjects…
Descriptors: Accidents, Anxiety, Death, Higher Education
Norton, Janet Lynn – 1994
This study was conducted to examine reflective thinking in 12 preservice teachers as it relates to locus of control and creative thinking. Subjects completed the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (Verbal Form A) and The Locus of Control Scale for Teachers. Measures of the dependent variable, reflective thinking, were determined through analyses…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
