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Direct linkHoover, Kathleen Geiger – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2003
This correlation study assessed whether the psychological variables of college students' locus of control, self-efficacy, and achievement expectations strengthen the prediction of academic achievement beyond that of traditional cognitive measures of high school grade point average and scores on the ACT or SAT examination. The study used earned…
Descriptors: Relationship, Locus of Control, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Thompson, Patricia; And Others – 1979
Using college freshmen enrolled in a learning analysis course, the relationship between five tests of cognitive style was investigated: (1) Group Embedded Figures Test; (2) Grasha-Riechmann Student Learning Style Questionnaire; (3) Adult Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale; (4) Mehrabian Stimulus Screening Test; and (5) Kolb Learning Style…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Cognitive Tests, College Credits
