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Professional/Career Orientation, Awareness, and Their Relationship to Locus of Control
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Algadheeb, Nourah A. – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2015
This study aimed at exploring the differences in professional/career orientation and awareness while considering a number of variables including locus of control, academic specialization and school backwardness. Several measures were used to achieve the study's goals. The first two, a professional/career orientation measure and a…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Professional Development, Goal Orientation, Locus of Control
Antecedents of Teachers' Educational Beliefs about Mathematics and Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching among In-Service Teachers in High Poverty Urban Schools
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Corkin, Danya M.; Ekmekci, Adem; Papakonstantinou, Anne – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
This paper examines the antecedents of three types of educational beliefs about mathematics among 151 teachers predominantly working in high poverty schools. Studies across various countries have found that teachers in high poverty schools are less likely to enact instructional approaches that align with mathematics reform standards set by…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction, Poverty, Regression (Statistics)
Perceived Social Support and Locus of Control as the Predictors of Vocational Outcome Expectations
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Isik, Erkan – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of vocational outcome expectation to social support which is an environmental factor and locus of control which is a personal factor. With this purpose, using Social Cognitive Career Theory as the theoretical framework, 263 undergraduate students completed Vocational Outcome Expectations…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Locus of Control, Predictor Variables, Social Cognition
A New Look at the Role of Locus of Control in Completion Rates in Distance Education.
Stone, Theodore E. – Research in Distance Education, 1992
Seventeen enrollees in Goodwill Industries' executive training program via correspondence courses received weekly telephone calls from tutors; a control group of 17 received written responses only when completed assignments were returned. Subjects with external locus of control completed coursework significantly faster when they had regular…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correspondence Study, Locus of Control, Management Development
The Relation between the Ethics of Personal Conscience-Social Responsibility and Principled Moral Reasoning.
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Gutkin, Daniel C.; Suls, Jerry – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1979
College students were tested on Hogan's Survey of Ethical Attitudes, Rest's Defining Issues Test, Collins' revision of Rotter's Internal-External Scale, and Snyder's Self-Monitoring Scale. Subjects who endorsed personal conscience showed greater maturity in moral reasoning. The subjects who advocated social responsibility tended to show more…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, College Students, Higher Education, Locus of Control
Beliefs Regarding Classroom Management Style: The Differences between Pre-Service and Experienced Teachers.
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Martin, Nancy K.; Baldwin, Beatrice – 1992
Ideas regarding the nature of appropriate and inappropriate behaviors and how to control them vary among teachers and can play an important role in classroom management. The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between the beliefs of experienced and pre-service teachers regarding classroom management. Within this study,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Discipline Policy