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Peer reviewedButkowsky, Irwin S.; Willows, Dale M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Fifth-grade boys of relatively good, average, and poor reading ability were assessed on tasks in which success and failure were manipulated. Consistent with predictions, poor readers displayed characteristics indicative of learned helplessness and low self-concepts of ability, including low expectations and less persistence. (Instructional…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Expectation, Failure, Grade 5
