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The Effects of a Camping/Construction Experience on the Self Concepts, Locus of Control, and Academic Achievement of High School Students.

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Gillis, Harold Leon, Jr. – 1981

High school students in grades 8-12 participated in an experimental three-weekend camping and construction project designed to measure the personal and social growth potential of a non-risk, challenging, generative-based experience. Twenty-three students were matched and randomly assigned to either an experimental group or a control group.…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Camping, Construction Programs, Educational Research

Toward a Linking of Motivational Theories.

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Greene, Jennifer C. – 1982

Motivation is widely believed to be a critical component of the learning process in the elementary classroom, but educational research has failed to substantiate this belief. To investigate interrelationships among selected motivational variables, demographic, motivational and achievement characteristics of 400 elementary school students in Grades…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Classroom Environment, Educational Research