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Peer reviewedSkinner, Ellen A. – Child Development, 1990
Assessed children's beliefs about the effectiveness of five causes of school success. At the age of 7-8 years, children differentiated the factors into "unknown" and "other"; at 9-10, "other" was differentiated into "internal" and "external"; at 11-12, "internal" was differentiated into…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attribution Theory
Download full textLinder, Fredric; Janus, Charles E. – 1997
This study examined the relationship of dental students' (N=145) perceptions of how much control they have over their environments to their academic achievement and to such demographic variables as age, gender, race, or ethnicity. Subjects were given a questionnaire to obtain demographic information and Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Dental Students, Field Dependence Independence
