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Omelich, Carol L.; Covington, Martin V. – 1980
Under a mastery learning system students can take successive parallel tests with study interspersed between tests until they demonstrate a minimal level of competency. For most students, such procedures increase final performance, yet some may experience repeated subjective failure. Self-worth theory predicts that repeated failure in the face of…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, College Students
Download full textLeitner, Dennis W.; And Others – 1979
To discover factors which contribute to a high response rate for questionnaire surveys, the preferences of 150 college teachers and teaching assistants were studied. Four different questionnaire formats using 34 common items were sent to the subjects: open-ended; Likert-type (five points, from "strong influence to return," to…
Descriptors: Check Lists, College Faculty, Comparative Testing, Higher Education
