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Hare, Victoria Chou; Pulliam, Cynthia A. – 1979
It was hypothesized that college students' metacognitive behaviors would predict their reading achievement scores. Nelson-Denny Reading Tests scores were obtained for each of 66 students in undergraduate reading methods courses, and these students were asked to introspect about their behavior as they read an article related to course work.…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Metacognition, Multiple Regression Analysis
Download full textMurphy, Carolyn Colvin; Shell, Duane F. – 1989
A study examined how self-efficacy, causal attribution, and outcome expectancy beliefs are related to reading and writing for ethnically diverse college freshmen and whether the patterns of belief-performance relationships for ethnically diverse students are similar to those found for white, middle class populations. Subjects in the ethnic sample…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Blacks, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
Baecher, Richard E.; And Others – 1989
This report examines the correlates of successful social and educational strategies of a dropout prevention program for minority children in an urban school district. In 1986, Fordham University's Graduate School of Education and Social Services became partners with a heavily-populated minority public school district in New York City. This paper…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, College School Cooperation, Dropout Prevention
