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The effect of teacher written positive comments on the locus of control of fourth and fifth grade spelling students
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wiseman, Donna L. | |
| dc.creator | Corley, Donna Jean | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-02T20:11:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-02T20:11:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1990 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1207710 | |
| dc.description | Typescript (photocopy). | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This purpose of this study was to examine the effects of teacher written comments of encouragement and praise on the locus of control of fourth and fifth grade spelling students. Two hundred and twenty-eight students from Montgomery Intermediate School in Montgomery, Texas were studied in this research. The locus of control of each student was assessed before and after the treatments by the Norwicki-Strickland Scale of Children's Locus of Control. Teacher written comments of encouragement or praise chosen form a list compiled by a panel of educational experts were assigned to student's spelling posttests in randomly determined groups for a six week grading period. Descriptive statistics, analysis of variance, and correlations were used to analyze the data. At the p[less than or equal to].05 level, no statistical significance was found in the analysis of variance. However, the correlations did reveal a significance was found in the analysis of variance. However, the correlations did reveal a significance in family size and birth order. | en |
| dc.format.extent | x, 115 leaves | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Major curriculum and instruction | en |
| dc.subject.classification | 1990 Dissertation C7995 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | School children | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Effect of praise on | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Learning, Psychology of | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Locus of control | en |
| dc.title | The effect of teacher written positive comments on the locus of control of fourth and fifth grade spelling students | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph. D | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | David, David W. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Kracht, James B. | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Nash, William R. | |
| dc.type.genre | dissertations | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
| dc.publisher.digital | Texas A&M University. Libraries | |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 25080058 |
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