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Laurent Brun; Pascal Pansu; Benoit Dompnier – Educational Psychology, 2024
Over the past fifty years, extensive research has examined the influence of causal attributions on cognitions, emotions, and behaviours in educational contexts. However, these studies often relied on inferences about dimensional properties of attributions, and not on students' perceptions of them. This study innovates by directly assessing these…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Failure, Success, Student Attitudes
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Borst, G.; Poirel, N.; Pineau, A.; Cassotti, M.; Houdé, O. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Most children under 7 years of age presented with 10 daisies and 2 roses fail to indicate that there are more flowers than daisies. Instead of the appropriate comparison of the relative numerosities of the superordinate class (flowers) to its subordinate class (daisies), they perform a direct perceptual comparison of the extensions of the 2…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Efficiency, Children, Priming
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Py, Jacques; Jouffre, Stephane – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2009
The causal explanation has an effect: (1) on expectancy and value at an intra-individual level (Weiner, 2000); (2) on feeling and affective evaluation at an interpersonal level (Weiner 2000); and (3) on institutional judgment at an organizational level (Dubois, 2003). A study was conducted with pupils between the 4th and 9th grades in order to…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Locus of Control
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Munier, Valerie; Merle, Helene – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
The present study takes an interdisciplinary mathematics-physics approach to the acquisition of the concept of angle by children in Grades 3-5. This paper first presents the theoretical framework we developed, then we analyse the concept of angle and the difficulties pupils have with it. Finally, we report three experimental physics-based teaching…
Descriptors: Physics, Grade 3, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach