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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
Cadavid, Victoria; Lunenburg, Fred C. – 1991
Investigations are needed to illuminate how teachers at different degrees of burnout perceive stressful situations (either internally or externally) and how they perceive the control of pupil behavior. This paper summarizes a study exploring whether there is a direct relationship between: (1) locus of control and teacher burnout; (2) pupil control…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Coping, Elementary Secondary Education, Locus of Control

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
Knight, Bruce Allen – Gifted Education International, 1995
Gifted students' perceptions of an internal or external locus of control (LOC) and the effect on their behavior is discussed. Research is reviewed that shows that gifted students who are proficient academically or in other areas believe they have an internal locus of control, while underachieving gifted students perceive an external LOC. (CR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
Henson, Robin K. – 2001
This study examined the multivariate relationships between teacher efficacy and task analysis variables as predictors of classroom beliefs about control, focusing on these relationships in preservice teachers. Preservice teachers from a required educational psychology course volunteered to participate in the study. They completed three…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Locus of Control

Dubois, Nicole – Journal of Social Psychology, 1988
Presents a study designed to assess children's, pre-adolescents', and adolescents' awareness of the norm of internality and to confirm previous results that showed the importance of school in its acquisition. Concludes that children's development of internality in LOC (locus of control) should be regarded as the acquisition of a norm rather than…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Standards, Child Psychology, Children
James, Gordon B. – 1983
Health behaviors of all students, including adolescents, have direct impact upon both personal well being and actualization of potential for maximum learning. This paper reviews examples of concrete health behaviors that both positively and negatively influence the two factors, and summarizes present objectives for the nation in the health…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Behavior

Blatchford, Peter – Educational Studies, 1992
Discusses results of interviews with 11 year olds in a longitudinal study of educational progress. Reports that students were aware of the importance of school work. Describes most students as looking forward to secondary school and the study of more specialized subjects. Reports that children perceived academic success as within their control.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education

Powell, Jack V.; Aeby, Victor G. Jr.; Carpenter-Aeby, Tracy – Computers & Education, 2003
Studied the use of a computer-based instructional package called SuccessMaker with disruptive students to determine its effects on locus of control and grade point average. Results of pretests and posttests showed an improvement in academic outcomes when the intervention was teacher facilitated. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware

Tobin, Kenneth G.; Capie, William – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1982
Twelve pupils from each of 13 middle school science classes participated in this study. Findings, among others, indicate that two of nine engagement measures (attending and generalizing), together with formal reasoning ability, were related to process skill, achievement, and retention. (JN)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 6
Martin, Nancy K.; Baldwin, Beatrice – 1992
Ideas regarding the nature of appropriate and inappropriate behaviors and how to control them vary among teachers and can play an important role in classroom management. The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between the beliefs of experienced and pre-service teachers regarding classroom management. Within this study,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Discipline Policy