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Miller, Michael F.; Winder, Paul A. – New York State Personnel and Guidance Worker, 1976
This article examines the relationship between Crites' measure of vocational maturity attitudes and Rotter's Internal-External Scale. Results indicate a positive association between vocational maturity and internal locus of control. (Author/HMV)
Descriptors: College Students, Decision Making Skills, Locus of Control, Positive Reinforcement
Download full textPerry, Raymond P.; Dickens, Wenda J. – 1983
The effects of contingency training, instructor expressiveness, and student incentives on student achievement and attributions were investigated in a simulated college classroom. The following conditions were involved: a contingency manipulation resembling an aptitude test; an instructor lecture; two levels of student incentive; and an achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Feedback, Helplessness, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKennelly, Kevin; Kinley, Shirley – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
To determine the relationships among perceived contingency of teacher administered reinforcements, locus of control, and academic achievement, 49 sixth-grade boys were studied. In general, subjects who perceived their teachers as contingently punitive to boys were internal in locus of control and performed well on measures of academic achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Locus of Control, Males
Whitmore, Joanne Rand – 1973
A student leadership program was implemented in an elementary school to increase the social value of constructive (appropriate) classroom behavior and to generate more positive pupil attitudes toward self and school. The specific aims of the intervention were to reduce the disruptive, negative behavior of some socially powerful students while…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Discipline Problems, Elementary School Students, Leadership
