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Title: | The Impact of Entering a High School for The Academically Talented, on The Academic Self-Concept, Social-Emotional Adjustment, and Causal Attributions of Beginning Students |
Author(s): | Fraker, French Levering, Jr. |
Department / Program: | Education |
Discipline: | Education |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Education, Educational Psychology |
Abstract: | This study investigated the impact that the entry into a school comprised of all academically talented students had upon the academic self-concept, social emotional adjustment, and causal attributions of the beginning students. The students entered this school from the sixth and seventh grade. Each student was given a pre-measure of academic self-concept, social-emotional adjustment, and causal attributions at the beginning of the first semester. A post-measure of these three instruments was given at the end of the first semester. A t-test was computed to determine the nature of the impact on the students. The results indicate both academic self-concept and social-emotional adjustment remained stable. There was a shift in the causal attributions of the students. There was an increase in the amount of responsibility for failure the students attributed to a lack of ability and to a lack of effort. The other causal attributions did not significantly change. These results imply the academic self-concept and social-emotional adjustment of the students were not altered by entry into a school comprised of all gifted students. This transition does however appear to result in an increased internal attribution for failure. |
Issue Date: | 1986 |
Type: | Text |
Description: | 156 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/69038 |
Other Identifier(s): | (UMI)AAI8610927 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2014-12-15 |
Date Deposited: | 1986 |
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Dissertations and Theses - Education
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Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois
Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois