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Zhou, Ying-Xue; Ou, Chun-Quan; Zhao, Zhi-Tao; Wan, Cheng-Song; Guo, Cui; Li, Li; Chen, Ping-Yan – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
Students' first-year academic success plays a critical role on their overall development in college, which implies the need to concentrate on identifying ways to improve students' first-year academic success. Different from most research on the subject, this study attempted to combine the sociological perspective of college impact with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Medical Students, Academic Achievement
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Perry, Raymond P.; Penner, Kurt S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Attributional retraining--a therapeutic method of reinstating psychological control--of 198 Canadian college students through a videotaped lecture enabled external locus of control students to learn more and make better use of homework study materials but offered no advantage to internal locus students. Results are interpreted in a social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Attribution Theory, College Students
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Glasgow, Kristan L.; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Examined contemporaneous and predictive relations between parenting styles, adolescents' attributions, and educational outcomes. Found that adolescents who perceived their parents as nonauthoritative were more likely than peers to attribute achievement outcomes to external causes or low ability. The higher the proportion of dysfunctional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Asian Americans, Attribution Theory