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Enhancing Academic Achievement in College Students through Attributional Retraining and Instruction.
Peer reviewedPerry, Raymond P.; Penner, Kurt S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Attributional retraining--a therapeutic method of reinstating psychological control--of 198 Canadian college students through a videotaped lecture enabled external locus of control students to learn more and make better use of homework study materials but offered no advantage to internal locus students. Results are interpreted in a social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Attribution Theory, College Students
