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Peer reviewedAlmarsdottir, Anna B.; Zimmer, Catherine – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1998
Examined knowledge about medicines and perceived benefit among 101 children, ages 7 and 10. Found that medicine knowledge was explained using age, educational environment, and degree of internal locus of control as significant predictors. The negative effect of internal locus of control predicted perceived benefit. Retention of drug advertising…
Descriptors: Advertising, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedPiers, Ellen V. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1977
Relationships between children's self esteem, certainty of self esteem appraisal, and intellectual achievement responsibility were examined in boys and girls at the sixth grade and tenth grade levels with use of the Piers-Harris Children's Self Concept Scale and the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire. (MS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedWoodrow, 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
