Children's Perception of Their Academic Ability and Achievement Accountability. Final Report.

Autor/in	Clifford, Margaret M.
Institution	Iowa Univ., Iowa City.
Titel	Children's Perception of Their Academic Ability and Achievement Accountability. Final Report.
Quelle	(1971), (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Elementary School Students; Individual Power; Performance; Performance Factors; Self Concept; Self Evaluation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Eigeninitiative; Achievement; Leistung; Leistungsindikator; Selbstkonzept
Abstract	The introductory discussion focuses on research which shows relationships between self-perception and school performance, and emphasizes especially a locus of control measurement scale developed to assess children's belief in internal vs. external control in academic situations exclusively. Internality is seen as constituting a motivational influence upon achievement performance. In this study, conducted with 99 4th, 5th and 6th graders, the author examined relationships between internality and performance on spelling, vocabulary and math tests in which subjects determined the levels of difficulty at which they worked. Correlation was controlled for IQ and achievement. At each grade level, internality showed a significant positive correlation with performance. For boys, this relationship was stronger than that found between performance and IQ, while for girls IQ correlated more highly with performance than did internality. (Author/TL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01