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Peer reviewedOren, Ditza L. – Journal of Educational Research, 1983
A study explored the effects of classroom feedback and evaluation structure on students' attributional tendencies. Results suggest that the classroom feedback and evaluation system affect students' causal explanations of failure and success. (Author/CJ)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Classroom Communication, Evaluation Methods, Feedback
Peer reviewedAshkanasy, Neal M. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1991
Presents a study extending a model of leadership response based on attribution theories to include measures of locus of control and situational control. Describes a procedure by which subjects responded to descriptions of subordinate performance. Concludes that supervisors with an external locus of control were less sensitive to subordinate…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
PDF pending restorationGrollino, Elizabeth; Velayo, Richard S. – 1996
This study analyzed college students' use of motivational strategies in academic contexts. Participants included 11 male and 26 female undergraduate students enrolled in psychology courses at an urban university, who completed the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire. Analysis focused primarily on responses to the following sample…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Attribution Theory, Evaluation Methods, Failure
Peer reviewedFelson, Richard B. – American Sociologist, 1991
Criticizes the use of blame analysis rather than scientific analysis in sociological studies. Defines blame analysis as an approach to social science that (1) evaluates theories according to the extent that they blame protected groups; (2) equates cause with blame; (3) and rejects theoretical arguments that posit any causal role for the protected…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Battered Women, Causal Models, Evaluation Methods
