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Whose Future Is It Anyway? Promoting Student Involvement in Transition Planning.
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Wehmeyer, Michael; Lawrence, Margaret – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1995
A field test was conducted of a student-directed transition planning program designed to enable 53 high school students with mild mental retardation and learning disabilities to participate more meaningfully in their transition planning process. Following training, significant changes in students' scores on self-efficacy and outcome expectancy…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Planning, Goal Orientation, Learning Disabilities
Gender Differences in Mathematics and the Sciences: Can Attributional Retraining Improve the Performance of Gifted Females?.
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Heller, Kurt A.; Ziegler, Albert – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1996
This article discusses using attributional retraining techniques with gifted girls to reduce gender differences in mathematics and science performance. Following an overview of the most important retraining techniques, two studies with extremely promising results are described, the first with 42 German high school students in mathematics, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Attitude Change, Attribution Theory