NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 10 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Soriano-Ferrer, Manuel; Alonso-Blanco, Elena – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Previous literature highlights the importance of causal attributions in achievement and motivation. However, the studies about causal attributions in second language acquisition (SLA) are limited and scarce. Aims: This study was designed to determine the frequency of successful and unsuccessful activities per English level and to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Attribution Theory, English (Second Language), Success
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Faisal Farid, Muhammad; Akhter, Mumtaz – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2017
Pakistani students at secondary school level were asked to respond to a self-reporting causal attributions beliefs scale. The scale measured eight causal beliefs about success and failure. Participants of the study included 1826 students from three districts in Punjab. Results showed that both male and female students endorsed internal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Attribution Theory, Student Attitudes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
House, William C. – Journal of Research in Personality, 1980
Observed subjects evidenced less tendency to attribute their failure to low ability than did nonobserved subjects and greater willingness to attribute failure to lack of effort. For a task intended to be of minimal relevance to subjects' identities, nonobserved subjects attributed failure to task difficulty. (Author)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Bias, Competence, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Aponik, David Allen; Dembo, Myron H. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1983
An investigation of the causal attributions of success and failure performances on various levels of task difficulty by 36 learning disabled and 36 nondisabled adolescents revealed that Ss' perceptions of the task difficulty levels were significant determinants of the two groups' differing causal attributions. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Difficulty Level, Failure
Swidler, Phyllis Joy; Diener, Carol I. – 1983
A study was made to determine whether there exists a group of overpersisting children who are considered mastery-oriented because of their persistence but who actually demonstrate characteristics of learned helplessness. Subjects were 71 females and 84 males from fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade classrooms. Children's scores on the Intellectual…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students, Expectation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Dembo, Myron H.; Vaugn, Wendy – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1989
Forty elementary-school learning-disabled children completed a design assembly task and a vocabulary task. Results indicated a significant performance (success and failure)-by-maternal involvement (presence and absence) interaction for children's attributional ratings of effort, task difficulty, and luck, and for mothers' attributional ratings of…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Failure
Rocklin, Thomas – 1989
In self-adapted testing, examinees are allowed to choose the difficulty of each item to be presented immediately before attempting it. Previous research has demonstrated that self-adapted testing leads to better performance than do fixed-order tests and is preferred by examinees. The present study examined the strategies that 29 college students…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Attribution Theory, College Students, Computer Assisted Testing
Etaugh, Claire; And Others – 1980
The purpose of this study was to clarify the age of emergence of differential attributions for the success and failure of girls and boys on feminine and masculine tasks. Subjects were 192 children attending either preschool or third grade. From this group 6 boys and 6 girls from each grade level were randomly assigned to one of eight conditions…
Descriptors: Ability, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Difficulty Level
Shucard, Sharon B.; Hillman, Stephen B. – 1990
This study investigated the cognitive styles, attributions, and self-evaluations of 40 gifted girls and 40 gifted boys, grades 6 through 8. Informational attributional ratings for task difficulty, luck, ability, and effort were studied in the context of: (1) an individual non-competitive goal structure; (2) a competitive goal structure; (3)…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Style, Competition
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Perry, Raymond P.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1994
A study with 288 college psychology students investigated the relationship between students' perceptions of the reasons for their academic success or failure (explanatory schemas) and the quality of instruction. Results are discussed in terms of the role of explanatory schemas as buffers or compensations for ineffective instruction. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, College Instruction