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The Relationship Between Anxiety And Reading Achievement Of Sixth Grade Boys And Girls, Ruth O. Beer

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The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship of anxiety and reading achievement levels. The study was concerned with the following questions:

1. Are the boys and girls who are achieving below their expected reading levels more anxious than those who are achieving above their reading levels?

2. Are the girls who are achieving below their expected reading levels more anxious than those who are achieving above their expected reading levels?

3. Are the boys who are achieving below their expected reading levels more anxious than those who are achieving above their reading levels?

Sixty-four boys and girls …

Confirmation And Disconfirmation Of Expectancies During Modeling, Roy Steven Garrett

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To determine the function or confirmation and disconfirmation of expectancy during modeling behavior, 60 primary school children were exposed to a training film (adult male model), and then to three conditions or expectancy confirmation (group C, 100% group CNC, 50%; group NC, 0%) through a second experimental film. Ss' responses were observed under incentive and no-incentive conditions. Though expectancy was not significant, incentive was (p< .01). S responses which matched M's responses in the film showed that confirmation of expectancy did not affect imitative learning. While the perceptual definition of expectancy in this study had no effect, expectancy as a motivational condition and measured during actual observational learning (training film) was discussed as having an effect on number of matching responses in modeling.