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Stone, Gerald L.; Jackson, Ted – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1975
Purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between locus of control and the issue of modeling and instructional effectiveness. Results indicated that modeling was an effective procedure. Internal-modeling subjects were more concrete than the internal-instructions subjects. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Instruction, Interaction Process Analysis, Learning
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Rich, H. Lyndall; Bush, Andrew J. – Journal of Educational Research, 1978
College students with an internal locus of control favored faculty members with a low control teaching style, while a highly controlling teaching style appealed to students with an external locus of control. (ED)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Interaction Process Analysis, Locus of Control
Baum, Andrew; And Others – Environmental Psychology and Nonverbal Behavior, 1978
Describes effects of architecturally determined residential group size on development of social groups and norms of social control over shared interior spaces. Long-corridor residents expressed lower feelings of control over themselves in shared interior spaces and reported they exerted less group-derived social control over hallway space than…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, College Students, Community Control
Owen, Steven V.; Froman, Robin D. – 1977
This research examines the interaction between college students' control orientation and a discrepancy score of GPA minus expected grade in course, on the dependent measure of 13 student rating items. It was hypothesized that students with an external locus of control who also showed a discrepancy between expected and actual grades would distort…
Descriptors: College Students, Expectation, Grades (Scholastic), Higher Education