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ERIC Number: EJ1333951
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Apr
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
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A Longitudinal Study of the Domain-Generality of African American Students' Causal Attributions for Academic Success
Vuletich, Heidi A.; Kurtz-Costes, Beth; Bollen, Kenneth A.; Rowley, Stephanie J.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v111 n3 p459-474 Apr 2019
Students' causal attributions about the reasons underlying their academic successes are important because of the influence of those attributions on academic motivation. We investigated whether students' success attributions tend to be similar across academic subjects versus specific to academic domain, and whether domain-generality or specificity changes with development. African American students (N = 565) reported their causal attributions for math, science, and English successes longitudinally from elementary to high school. Structural equation modeling showed that individual differences in students' tendencies to attribute successes to ability, effort, or their teachers were domain-general, not differing across academic content areas. Results did not differ by sex. The lack of domain-specificity in attributions suggests that when African American students consider what factors influence their school performance, they view academic outcomes as a single achievement domain rather than differentiating among school subjects.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools; Grade 7; Junior High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 10; High Schools; Grade 12
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: DRL1251862; DRL1251736