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Download full textWolfgang, Aaron; Potvin, Robert – 1973
Homeroom teachers selected 120 students from their sixth, seventh, and eighth grade classes for this study. The subjects were categorized by teachers as high and low classroom participators. Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale was used to measure the extent to which students believed their successes were due to their own personal…
Descriptors: Achievement, Class Activities, Elementary School Students, Grade 6
Peer reviewedWilson, David; And Others – Journal of Social Psychology, 1989
Examines the relationship between academic locus of control and LOGO performance among Black and White primary school students in Zimbabwe. Found that Black females' LOGO scores were negatively related to internal academic locus of control, Black and White males' scores were positively related, and White females' scores were unrelated. (LS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedPittman, Robert B. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1979
Two issues were studied: students' perceptions of various situational influences of the school environment with regard to locus of control, and the relationship of situational influences to academic achievement. Situational influences involving parents, parental interaction, or home environment were most related to achievement. (MH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Family Environment
Igoe, Ann R.; Sullivan, Howard – 1991
Descriptive data were collected from male and female students in grades 7, 9, and 11 on five learner attributes commonly reported as influencing student learning and/or motivation: desire for approval of others, attribution of success or failure, desire for challenge in academic settings, perceived self-competence in school settings, and locus of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Comparative Testing, Grade 11
Peer reviewedLopez, Cecilia L.; Harper, Maria – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1989
Describes study that investigated achievement and motivation effects related to locus of control and learner control on seventh and eighth grade Hispanic students completing a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) science lesson. Use of the Intellectual Achievement Responsibility scale is discussed, and a questionnaire that assessed student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 7
Ockerman-Garza, Janet; And Others – 1982
The relationship among key social/psychological variables (self-esteem, locus of control, social isolation, perceptions of role models) and achievement among migrant children was examined, using December 1980 data obtained from 1,004 seventh grade students (515 males/489 females) from a large school district in Hidalgo County in the Texas Lower…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Comparative Analysis, Grade 7
