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Exclusionary Discipline, Students' Academic Performance, and Students' Sense of Futility
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Heather Whitaker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Every Student Succeeds Act was passed in 2015, requiring schools to choose an accountability measure to accompany standardized achievement assessments. This act charges schools to educate students on academic standards and address the whole student socially and emotionally. One climate variable not widely studied in America is students' sense…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Discipline, Locus of Control, Behavior Patterns
Perceptions of Control over Social Outcomes and Student Behavior
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Bradley, Robert; Teeter, Thomas A. – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
Locus of control and classroom behavior data were gathered from 223 randomly selected junior/senior high school students. Results showed moderate positive correlation between internality and both considerate and task-oriented behavior. The strongest relationship observed was between perceptions about the teacher's control over negative outcomes…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Interaction Process Analysis
The Relationship of Locus of Control and Learned Helplessness in Special Education Students.
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Williams, Mary V.; Barber, William H. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1992
The question of whether special education students exhibit more learned helpless behavior and a more external locus of control than regular students is examined. The effects of these psychological conditions on school success are considered, and programs for alleviating learned helplessness and establishing a more internal locus of control are…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attribution Theory, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns