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Godfrey, Ernestine – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1972
Retention of students...has detrimental effects, not only on academic achievement but also on the students' self-concepts and attitudes. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Elementary School Students, Grade Repetition, School Attitudes
Payne, James E. – Training School Bulletin, 1971
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Failure, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedSwift, Marshall; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1972
Achievement-impeding classroom behaviors in France and the United States were analyzed and compared. (KW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales
Margulies, Newton – Training and Development Journal, 1971
A report on developing consulting skills for organization problem solving in a large organization. (Author)
Descriptors: Consultants, Counselor Client Relationship, Data Collection, Failure
Shimkunas, Algimantas M. – J Personality Soc Psychol, 1970
Suggests that situational uncertainty heightens the effect of success and failure on the anxious individual. Tables, graphs, and bibliography. (RW)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Expectation
Propper, Martin M.; Clark, Edward T. – J Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Attitudes, Conformity
Smithers, A. G.; Batcock, Angela – Brit J Educ Psychol, 1970
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Health Education, Higher Education
Greenall, Stella – Universities Quarterly, 1971
Student lists unfair testing, grading, guidance and waste of talent, ability and hope as problems throughout the educational system. (IR)
Descriptors: Competitive Selection, Dropouts, Educational Counseling, Employment Opportunities
Peer reviewedFearn, Leif – Reading Teacher, 1970
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Disadvantaged Youth, Failure, Human Dignity
Motivational Differences: Cultural-Familial Retardates vs. Normal Subjects on Expectancy for Failure
MacMillan, Donald L. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Research, Failure, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedCazden, Courtney B. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1983
Reviews the contributions of anthropology in educational experiments designed to help educationally and socially disadvantaged children. Cautions that educational psychology will retain its hegemony in educational research, unless anthropology is able to show how educational failure can be reversed. (GC)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Educational Anthropology, Educational Experiments, Educational Psychology
Peer reviewedFigueira-McDonough, Josefina – Youth and Society, 1983
Data on tenth graders indicated that delinquency increased as grades decreased, supporting the hypothesis that failing students are under high strain. Rejection of school educational goals reinforced the inverse association between grades and delinquency. Extent of delinquency among students considered rebellious, ritualist, retreatist, or…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Coping, Delinquency, High School Students
Peer reviewedPearl, Ruth – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1982
Twenty-nine third and fourth grade learning disabled children's attributions for success and failure were examined. Results indicated that Ss did not always interpret successes as reflecting something positive about themselves. Nor did they view failure as something that could be overcome with effort. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Education, Failure, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedGarlen, Howard; And Others – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1982
Studied the relationship between attitudes toward women in management and attributions for their success. Employees (N=110) of a human services agency responded to a survey measuring attitudes toward women in management. Males showed attitudes significantly related to attributions for success. Females showed attitudes significantly related to…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Employed Women, Employee Attitudes, Employees
Peer reviewedBond, Lynne A.; Deming, Sara – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1982
In two experiments, third, fifth, and eleventh graders attributed success to effort more frequently on a "sex inappropriate" task than on a "sex appropriate" task. Overriding sex-of-actor biases emerged in explanations for failures, suggesting that failures were treated as anticipated outcomes for females. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Childhood Attitudes, Children
