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Peer reviewedCooper, Harris; Dorr, Nancy – Review of Educational Research, 1995
While a review by S. Graham (1994) found no differences between blacks and whites on measures of need for achievement, this meta-analysis article found reliable and complex race differences. Overall, whites scored higher on measures of need for achievement, although differences nearly disappeared in studies after 1970. Possible explanations are…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Literature Reviews
