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Peer reviewedSchneider, Barry H. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1984
Twenty-six severely learning disabled students aged 10 through 20 enrolled in a special residential school were interviewed. Most were found to have very little insight into the nature of LD and tended to attribute their learning problems to their own lack of effort. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Knowledge Level, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedCooley, Eric J.; Ayres, Robert R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1988
Self-concept and attributions made about academic successes and failures were compared in 46 students with learning disabilities and 47 normally achieving students (mean age 12 years). Attributions regarding internal versus external causes for successes and failures and stable (ability) versus unstable (effort) causes for failures did not…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Locus of Control
Peer reviewedLicht, Barbara G. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1983
The paper reviews research on the effects of motivation on performance of learning disabled children and presents a treatment approach (attribution retraining) designed to help children link their difficulties to factors under their own control. (CL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Elementary Secondary Education, Failure
Peer reviewedLewis, Shirley Kane; Lawrence-Patterson, Elizabeth – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
The perceptions of parents and teachers of 24 children with learning disabilities regarding their children's or students' locus of control (LC) orientation were compared to the LC orientation held by the children themselves. While no significant differences were found between parents and children, teachers perceived students as more internally…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Locus of Control
