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Hoover, Kathleen Geiger – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2003
This correlation study assessed whether the psychological variables of college students' locus of control, self-efficacy, and achievement expectations strengthen the prediction of academic achievement beyond that of traditional cognitive measures of high school grade point average and scores on the ACT or SAT examination. The study used earned…
Descriptors: Relationship, Locus of Control, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement