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Erkut, Sumru – 1977
One-hundred-seventy-six male and 116 female college freshmen took part in a questionnaire study of sex differences in attribution of achievemnt. Achievement was operationalized as grade point index, a performance measure of significance to the subjects, where success-failure feedback is contingent on one's own performance. The best predictor of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Expectation, Grade Prediction