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Peer reviewedClark, Jolene; Tollefson, Nona – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 1991
On measures of ability to improve writing quality, motivation to write, confidence in writing, and attitudes toward writing, 29 middle level students classified as mastery oriented consistently scored higher than 21 students classified as helpless. The 66 students classified as neither mastery oriented nor helpless had mean scores between the…
Descriptors: Gifted, Goal Orientation, Helplessness, Intermediate Grades
