Studied student, school, and staff characteristics to determine factors related to the disproportionate numbers of male and Black students suspended or expelled from school. School practices and conditions said to mediate the problem are identified. (Author/MW)

The effects of a modified mastery learning system on achievement in an individualized high school physical science course are examined. Results indicate that a medium performance standard was superior to both high and low standards for promoting achievement in both difficult and easily learned materials. (JN)

Hypothesized that internal locus of control would correlate with global self-esteem, physical self-concept, and lower physician-rated disability. Both hypotheses were partially supported. Internality correlated with greater educational attainment, externality with greater length of stay in the institution. (Author/DB)

Internal-external (I-E) locus of control responses and patterns of word association responses were examined among Japanese and American students. The study attempted to place culturally different I-E responses in context by examining superordinate or background cultural-linguistic characteristics via word associations. (Author/APM)

The relationships among cooperation-competition, perceptions of locus of control in social situations, and locus of control in intellectual-academic situations were compared among fourth- and fifth-graders in traditional and open classrooms. Open education children were more cooperative, and traditional students displayed higher internality for…

This investigation suggests that the traditional sex label does not constitute the only conceptualization of the sex variable and that alternative definitions of this variable may be a prerequisite to a better understanding of the relationship between sex and the individual's perceived locus of control. (Author)

Pittsburgh High School students cooperated with or competed against partners of same or opposite race. As hypothesized, achievement behavior of internally oriented Blacks was more influenced by partner's race and task expectancies than that of Whites. Internal Blacks achieved best when competing against Whites or cooperating with other Blacks.…

On achievement and behavior, girls were rated higher than boys and internals higher than externals. Sex interacted with school environment, such that girls' achievement ratings exceeded those of boys only in open classes. Locus of control by environment interaction was not found for achievement or behavior rankings. (Author)

This study examined the predictive validity of the 18 scales of the California Psychological Inventory and two scales of the Opinion Scale relative to success criteria in graduate school as measured by grades in individual courses, performance on the master's comprehensive examinations and graduate grade-point average. (Author/CTM)

The world view of Black students was external locus of control-external locus of responsibility. That of white students was internal locus of control-internal locus of responsibility. Self-reported anxiety level significantly correlated with locus of control scores only for Blacks. (Author)

The authors review studies of the self concept and locus of control of learning disabled children, emphasizing that their negative academic self concepts are often reinforced by low expectations of mothers and teachers. Reprinted from the "Journal of Clinical Child Psychology," 1979, v8 pp223-26. (Editor/SJL)

In a sample of college students, self-related exploration was positively related to satisfaction with the occupational decision of low anxiety students and negatively related to satisfaction among high anxiety students. Dissatisfaction with an occupational decision stimulated future work-related exploration for low anxiety students. (Author)

Used locus of control, ability, sex, task selection, task structure, and recall in a regression model to predict affective response to type of instruction of 104 high school seniors. Results showed a main effect for recall, and interaction effects for recall x sex and recall x ability. References are listed. (Author/JEG)

Investigated was the hypothesis that high arousal increases processing of physical characteristics and reduces processing of semantic characteristics. While introverts and extroverts had equivalent scanning rates for physical features, introverts were significantly slower in searching for semantic features of category membership, indicating…