Age is often used to explain performances by older people that may be judged substandard in comparison with those of younger people. To explore age as a possible causal attribution, descriptions of task performances by young (aged 30) and old (aged 70) women were judged by young (N=352) and old (N=96) female subjects on four attributions, i.e.,…

Research has shown that attributing failure to lack of ability leads to lower motivation than does attributing the failure to lack of effort. An attributional model of motivation and performance following failure was tested with college students (N=63), who were preselected on the basis of their attributional styles for interpersonal failures, as…

Five subject groups (adults and 11-, 9-, 7-, and 5-year-olds) were given affective reactions by a teacher, such as anger and pity, and asked to infer the teacher's causal attributions regarding why a student failed, such as low ability of lack of effort. There were systematic linkages between the following affect-attribution pairings:…

Alcoholism is becoming an increasingly significant problem for women. At one time, women rarely drank and the female alcoholic was an anomaly. Estimates of the total number of women alcoholics in the United States today are over 900,000. Women now constitute from 20 to 35% of all alcoholics in this country. This paper attempts to gain…

Educators are becoming increasingly concerned with social psychological variables affecting classroom behavior. This study attempts to determine if the achievement attribution model is supported in an actual classroom setting with college students actually taking an important exam. Participants were 35 volunteers from an introductory social…

A follow-up study of agricultural education graduates from Texas A & M University was conducted to determine the effectiveness of the curriculum in agricultural education at the University in the preparation of graduates for careers in agriculture and to determine the factors which might influence the choice of and success in either teaching…

Patterns of student performance were examined in a personalized instruction (PSI) course. Introductory psychology students (N=65) were randomly divided into a completely self-paced group and a group that had an early, instructor-imposed deadline. It was hypothesized that the early deadline group would respond at a more even pace throughout the…

THIS VOLUME PROVIDES EXEMPLARY QUESTIONNAIRE FORMS AND INTERVIEWING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ASSESSING PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGHER EDUCATION OF AMERICAN INDIANS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN AREA OF THE UNITED STATES. IT SUPPLEMENTS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT REPORT NUMBER 878, ENTITLED "ALASKAN NATIVE SECONDARY SCHOOL DROPOUTS" (ACCESSION NUMBER ED…

THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN APPROACH FOR SYSTEMATICALLY DEVELOPING AND INTERRELATING ORAL LANGUAGE AND READING BEHAVIORS WAS BASED ON A RESEARCH STUDY OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND READING WHOLLY CONCERNED WITH THE EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED, SPANISH-SPEAKING CHILD IN TEXAS. THE APPROACH WAS DEVELOPED FROM A STUDY OF A PARTICULAR GROUP OF CHILDREN…

This study investigated the nature of affective reactions of college students in a real-life testing situation, and the relationship of these affects to causal attributions and perceptions of success or failure. Ninety students responded to questions concerning their emotions after receiving results of an examination and indicated the contribution…

This paper presents an ethnographic analysis of a controversial research project, the Putaney Study, as an argument for the involvement of anthropologists in research that is perceived to be potentially controversial. A research team from Putaney University initiated a research project to document the fertility attitudes and practices of 600…

Students who speak in a jargon related to, but different from, Standard American English and students who know a single or limited word meaning but are unable to translate that word into a new subject area content both need reading instruction as though Standard American English were their second language. All content area teachers must teach…

Senior scientists representing a variety of research-oriented disciplines examine the reading process. Among the topics discussed are visual perception, the processing of written information, models for reading and speech, the relationship of spelling to sound, and areas of needed research. Also discussed are the influences of grammatical…

Longitudinal grade distribution frequencies before and after the institution of open admissions in fall 1970 are discussed in three related documents. The first examines the period from spring 1968 to fall 1973, showing failure grades increasing from 5.2% to 10.1% (94% increase) with open admissions, and "C" grades decreasing 19%, while all other…

This report focuses on the results of approximately twenty central studies of compensatory education completed before 1977 and presents the major results of those studies as they relate to important policy questions for Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The results are presented first as they relate to the major tasks of Title…