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Kumaravelu, G. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2018
This study aims to find out whether there is any positive relationship among locus of control and academic achievement of High school students in Puducherry region from a study on 380 school students. Locus of control scale developed by Levenson (1973) was used to collect the data. Results revealed significant difference was not observed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Locus of Control, Academic Achievement
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Dell'Angelo, Tabitha – Education and Urban Society, 2016
Race and class often marginalize students in impoverished urban neighborhoods, and this reality is evident in consistently low student achievement in many of the schools in these neighborhoods. This study examines how a teacher's sense of agency can help mediate the detrimental impact of poverty on student achievement. Teachers in a large…
Descriptors: High School Students, Urban Schools, Poverty, Academic Achievement
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Akça, Figen – Journal of Education and Learning, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-handicapping, academic procrastination, the locus of control and academic success. The aim was also to determine whether these variables predicted self-handicapping behavior. The population of the study consisted of 263 undergraduates studying in different departments of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Behavior, Time Management
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Akça, Figen – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
The present research aims to investigate the relationship between the learning strategies, learning styles, the locus of control and the academic success of prospective teachers. The study group consists of 198 university students in various departments at the Uludag University Faculty of Education. Research data were collected with the Locus of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Success, Preschool Teachers
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Anderson, Donna; Halberstadt, Jamin; Aitken, Robert – International Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Excessive entitlement--an exaggerated or unrealistic belief about what one deserves--has been associated with a variety of maladaptive behaviors, including a decline in motivation and effort. In the context of tertiary education, we reasoned that if students expend less effort to obtain positive outcomes to which they feel entitled, this should…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
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Sutantoputri, Novita W.; Watt, Helen M. G. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
Relationships between cultural factors (ethnicity and religiosity) and dimensions of students' attributions for their success and failure (locus of control, stability, personal control and external control), along with motivational goals (learning, performance approach, performance avoidance, and work avoidance), self-efficacy, intelligence…
Descriptors: Motivation, Attribution Theory, College Students, Ethnicity
LaVoie, Joseph C.; Adams, Gerald R. – 1975
In this study, locus of control and IQ were compared to assess the power of each as a predictor of performance on academic and non-academic tasks. Four locus of control scales: the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Scale, the Academic Achievement Accountability Questionnaire, the Rotter I-E scale, the Origin-Pawn measure and the Iowa Tests…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Chen, Sea-Shon – College Student Journal, 2005
Based on the psychology theory and the leadership definition, the author designed questionnaires of psychological constructs of learning and leadership characters to investigate the correlation between four psychological constructs of learning and leadership characters and to inquire into whether changing students' psychological constructs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychology, Leadership, College Students
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Kanoy, Korrel W.; And Others – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1989
Traditional measures such as Scholastic Aptitude Test scores and grade point averages are not adequate to predict academic achievement of lower-achieving students. Combining traditional predictors with nontraditional ones (including psychological and cognitive variables) produces a more effective predictor model. (IAH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, Females
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Wilhite, Stephen C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
A stepwise multiple regression analysis of final course grades of 184 psychology students revealed that scores on a self-assessment of memory ability were the best predictors of final course grades, followed by locus of control, and scores on the Self-Concept of Academic Ability Test. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Curriculum, College Students, Courses
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Woodrow, Janice E. J. – Computers and Education, 1991
Describes a study of student teachers that examined determinants of achievement in a computer literacy course. Correlations with measures of computer attitudes, perceived locus of control, gender, age, and prior word processing and computer experience are discussed, and the computer literacy model on which the analysis of data was based is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Computer Literacy, Correlation
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Watkins, David – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1986
Learning processes, as measured by the Approaches to Studying Inventory, contributed to the prediction of freshman grades of 181 Australians. Other measures, such as college entrance examinations, locus of control, and student background characteristics, had less predictive ability. (GDC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, College Entrance Examinations
Bridge, R. Gary; And Others – 1979
This book presents the results of 15 years of input-output (I-O) research on schooling effectiveness. The I-O approach identifies and measures the inschool and out-of-school factors that contribute to schooling outcomes, especially reading skills and verbal and mathematics achievement. Five categories of inputs are reviewed in this textbook: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Griffin, John Michael – 1978
The correlation between specific personality and biographical variables and the grade point average (GPA) of 211 first quarter community college and technical institute students was investigated using the Adult Nowicki Strickland Internal-External scale to determine locus of control, the Post High School Self-Concept of Academic Ability scale, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Community Colleges, Ethnic Groups
Crist-Whitzel, Janet L.; Hawley-Winne, Barbara J. – 1976
Relationships between cognitive and affective learner characteristics or "aptitudes" and mathematics achievement for sixth-graders in three instructional treatments in one school district were examined. Aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) analyses were performed to test for differential prediction of achievement outcomes among treatments, using…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
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