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Download full textFitzpatrick, Jody L. – 1974
Achievement patterns and the relationship to achievement of other- direction and attitudes toward women were investigated in 43 10th-grade females with IQ scores of above 110. Achievement indices consisted of grades, as well as mathematical and verbal achievement test scores. Beginning at Grade Six, grades of underachievers differed significantly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Females, High Achievement
Peer reviewedSmith, Robert L.; Troth, William A. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1975
Investigated the achievement motivation training component of psychological education. The subjects were 54 late-adolescent pupils. The experimental training program had as its objectives an increase in academic achievement motivation, internal feelings of control, and school performance, and a reduction of test anxiety. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Group Counseling, Locus of Control
Domain Specific Aspects of Locus of Control: Implications for Modifying Locus of Control Orientation
Peer reviewedBradley, Robert H.; Gaa, John P. – Journal of School Psychology, 1977
Goal-setting conferences were employed to improve LOC orientation for academic achievement situations among junior high school students (N=36). Results were interpreted as supporting domain-specific aspects of LOC. Results implied that educators can design programs to modify LOC orientation. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Environmental Influences, Goal Orientation
Peer reviewedRosen, Catherine E. – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
Students in an experimental and a control high school were compared in the fall and spring on their locus of control scores. An Open Campus policy was instituted in the experimental school. The experimentals increased significantly more than controls in internal control. (Author)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Environmental Influences, High School Students, Locus of Control
Lokan, Janice J.; Boss, Marvin W. – 1977
Super's self concept theory of vocational development has been criticized for its lack of attention to individual difference variables, particularly with regard to explaining why appropriate vocational behaviours are attained more readily by some individuals than by others. Partial explanation is provided here for the relationshp between locus of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Career Exploration, Decision Making Skills
Burlin, Frances-Dee – 1974
The purpose of this paper was to present findings from a study that investigated the ideal and real occupational aspirations (classified as Innovative, Moderate, or Traditional) among adolescent females with respect to locus of control and other social and psychological variables, e.g., parental education, mother's work and occupational status.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aspiration, Career Awareness, Females
Schultz, Raymond A. – 1975
The relationship of Locus of Control and Sensation Seeking to 267 high school students' perceptions of their Actual and Ideal socio-psychological climates as measured by the Learning Environment Inventory (LEI) was investigated. A principal components analysis of the LEI responses yielded three substantive dimensions: pleasantness index,…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Environmental Influences, High School Students, Individual Differences
Sherman, Lawrence; Hofmann, Richard J. – 1978
The relationship between locus of control (LC), grade point average (GPA), standardized achievement test scores (SAT), sex, and socioeconomic status (SES) was investigated among a sample of 174 eighth graders who responded to the Nowicki-Strickland locus on control instrument. Certain partial correlations between momentary achievement…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Critical Path Method, Grade Point Average, Locus of Control
Tirado, Ramon Claudio – 1978
The first followup study of the graduates of the Department of Graduate Studies in Education at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Pedras campus, was undertaken with seven objectives to determine: the satisfaction of graduates in their present work; the specific preparation provided by the graduate program; whether graduates are working in…
Descriptors: Age, Competition, Counselors, Education Majors
