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The effect of individual goal‐setting conferences on academic achievement and modification of locus of control orientation
Author(s) -
Gaa John P.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(197910)16:4<591::aid-pits2310160425>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - locus of control , psychology , goal orientation , treatment and control groups , academic achievement , post hoc , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , medicine , dentistry , pathology
Abstract The study was designed to investigate the effects of individual goal‐setting conferences on classroom achievement and locus of control orientation. Subjects were blocked on sex and previous achievement and randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: the goal‐setting (GS) group, which received weekly individual goal‐setting conferences; the conference (Cf) group, which received weekly individual conferences but set no goals; and the control (C) group, which received no conferences. Analyses of the data showed a significant treatment effect for achievement across treatment groups, with the GS group having significantly higher achievement than the Cf and C groups. Treatment effect across locus of control measures across treatment groups was less clear, although post hoc analyses indicated that the GS group was significantly more internal than either the Cf or C groups on the three intellectually oriented measures.