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Fouche, Jaunine – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this nonequivalent control group design study was to evaluate the effectiveness of metacognitive and self-regulatory strategy use on the assessment achievement of 215 9th-grade, residential physics students from low socioeconomic status (low-SES) backgrounds. Students from low-SES backgrounds often lack the self-regulatory habits…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Metacognition, Self Control, Grade 9
Winquist, Trancita – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study was conducted to examine characteristics contributing to high self control for incarcerated youth. Subjects include fifty youth (8 females and 42 males) ages 14 through 18 incarcerated for at least 60 days. Data on subjects' responses from a validated measure (Grasmick et. al. Scale, 1993) and data from historical records, STAR reading…
Descriptors: Self Control, Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Research Methodology