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Peer reviewedStipek, Deborah J.; Hoffman, Joel M. – Child Development, 1980
Three- to eight-year-old children were asked to make causal attributions for performance on a motor task, reward allocations for the performance outcome, and state expectations for future success. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Achievement, Attribution Theory, Children, Expectation
Peer reviewedBar-Tal, Daniel; Darom, Efraim – Child Development, 1979
Using an open-ended questionnaire, 236 fifth- and sixth-grade pupils attributed their success or failure on a test given in their classroom to eight different causes. Results indicated that the pupils tended to attribute success mainly to external causes and failure mainly to internal causes. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Failure
Peer reviewedHeller, Kirby A.; Parsons, Jacquelynne Eccles – Child Development, 1981
Studied two factors hypothesized to be related to sex differences in participation in mathematics courses -- teachers' evaluative feedback and students' success expectations. No sex differences were found in patterns of teachers' evaluative feedback or students' success expectations on familiar mathematics tasks; however, girls had lower success…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation, Feedback
