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Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Academic Behavior Among Students at an Alternative High School

For many years, educators and psychologists have attempted to define the strength of the relationship between self-concept and school performance., A productive approach may be to investigate academic self-efficacy. In the present study, data were collected for students at an alternative high school on the Measure of Academic Self-Efficacy (MASE), Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire (IAR), number of weeks spent in the program, and various descriptive and behavioral measures. C… more

Date: August 1983

Creator: Matthews, Catherine Henson

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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A Comparison of Sight Word and Phonics Contingencies in the Remediation of Oral Reading and Comprehension

A comparison of contingent word and phonics drilling exercises on oral reading errors was made and the effects of a work skipping contingency on reading comprehension were examined. Five learning disabled elementary school children served as subjects. Reading comprehension increased from 30 to 50% over baseline, while subjects progressed an average of two years through a reading series. Subjects responded differentially to the two drills on oral reading errors, but the combined effects of the d… more