Effects of Combined Strategy Instruction and Attribution Retraining in Mathematics Achievement of Form One Students in A Secondary School
Students form beliefs of success and failure towards learning and these have implications on coping with their learning problems. In the process of learning, it is important for them to identify the causes of failure and success in order to achieve higher performance and acquire learning strateg...
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| Language: | English English |
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2002
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9328/1/FPP_2002_20.pdf |
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| Summary: | Students form beliefs of success and failure towards learning and these
have implications on coping with their learning problems. In the process of
learning, it is important for them to identify the causes of failure and
success in order to achieve higher performance and acquire learning
strategies to master their learning. This study examined the effects of
combined strategy instruction and attribution retraining (SI + AR) on
students' causal attributions, learning strategies and achievement. Causal
attributions in this study were based on three dimensions, that is, whether
the results were due to the subjects themselves (internal) or others
(external), whether the causes were changing in nature (unstable) or
unchanging over time and place (stable) and whether the subjects can
control (controllable) or cannot control (uncontrollable) the causes
concerned. A total of 133 Form One students were randomly chosen from one
specific school. They formed four randomised cluster sampling classes.
Subjects underwent the testing for eight days and the treatment for twenty
days. The Nonequivalent Control Group Design consisting of three
experimental groups and one control group was used. The experimental
treatments were the SI + AR, the strategy instruction only (SI Only) and
the attribution retraining only (AR Only). The control group had no
treatment. All tests were administered before and after the treatment. |
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