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Download full textDe Charms, R.; And Others – 1969
Approximately 400 low-income black sixth-grade children underwent a two-step training process to help understand fate-control. After a week of intensive achievement-motivation training, nine experimental teachers and a research team cooperatively designed a program to develop in their students the realization that their behavior in relation to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Aspiration, Black Students
