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Student Achievement Effort As Related To Achievement And Self Concept, Michael Lynn Maughan
Student Achievement Effort As Related To Achievement And Self Concept, Michael Lynn Maughan
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study was designed to investigate more completely the variable of achievement effort (effort in school) as related to self rating, teacher rating, student self concept, actual achievement, and sex differences.
A group of 198 sixth grade students were used as the experimental subjects. Five sets of data were obtained on the students: (a) students' self ratings on an achievement effort rating scale, (b) teachers' ratings of their students on the same achievement effort rating scale, (c) students' scores on a self concept scale, (d) students' performances on an achievement test, and (e) students' performances on an intelligence test. Partial …