This study aimed to examine the relations among property strategies, working memory, and multiplication tasks with 101 Chinese fourth-grade students. Two multiplication property strategies (associative and distributive) were compared with no strategy and demonstrated differentiated effects on students' accuracy and reaction time. Associative…

This study was designed to forge stronger theoretical and empirical links between achievement goal theory and attribution theory. High school students ("N" = 224) completed a self-report survey that assessed 3 types of achievement goals, 7 types of attributions, and self-efficacy. Results indicated that students' adoption of achievement…

The aims of this study were to investigate the effects of discrepancies between teachers' perceptions of students' motivation and students' reports of their motivation on math and English grades and to identify possible gender and ethnic differences. Participants included 215 low-income, ethnic-minority students and their teachers in academically…

This study investigated the proposal that (a) contextual and personal factors affect the endorsement of social goals during early adolescence and (b) contextual factors and social goals may change over time. Self-reports of classroom contextual factors (i.e., promotion of performance goals, social interaction, and mutual respect) and personal…

To facilitate statistical decisions about sets of results encompassing more than a single isolated test, a joint probability multiple comparisons significance test for path analysis, multiple regression, and a correlation matrix is developed. (Author/AEF)

Copies of a complete multiple regression computer program (incorporating the modified Gauss-Jordan procedure) and instructions for its use may be found in the senior author's recent book, The Funstat Package in Fortran IV,'' Holt, Rinehart and Winston. (Authors/CB)

It is the purpose of this paper to investigate the chance nature of overfit as it relates to a regression formulation of research, to describe a model for projecting the overfit, and to empirically validate the model. (Author)

Common factor scores were compared to unfactored data-level variables as predictors in terms of the correlation of a criterion with the predicted value in multiple regression equations applied to replication (cross-validation) samples. (Editor)