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Direct linkCooler, Meredith – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore why some low-income minority students were academically successful in school using a three-tiered approach to research including individual student interviews, classroom observations, and photographs and follow up interviews on photographs to identify factors contributing to academic…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Success, Low Income Groups, African American Students
Download full textWolfgang, Aaron; Potvin, Robert – 1973
Homeroom teachers selected 120 students from their sixth, seventh, and eighth grade classes for this study. The subjects were categorized by teachers as high and low classroom participators. Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale was used to measure the extent to which students believed their successes were due to their own personal…
Descriptors: Achievement, Class Activities, Elementary School Students, Grade 6
Peer reviewedWatters, Derek A.; And Others – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1990
Factor analysis problems of scales with dichotomous items were illustrated using the Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children. A different solution than that of R. E. Lindal and P. H. Venables (1983) was obtained, despite using similar samples--2 random samples of 671 and 674 male seventh and eighth graders. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Factor Analysis, Grade 7
