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Goal setting and personal responsibility training for LD adolescents
Author(s) -
Tollefson a,
Tracy D. B.,
Johnsen E. P.,
Farmer A. W.,
Buenning Meredith
Publication year - 1984
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(198404)21:2<224::aid-pits2310210215>3.0.co;2-o
Subject(s) - psychology , attribution , set (abstract data type) , control (management) , training (meteorology) , medical education , moral responsibility , learning disabled , applied psychology , academic achievement , student achievement , mathematics education , developmental psychology , learning disability , social psychology , medicine , philosophy , physics , management , epistemology , meteorology , computer science , economics , programming language
A training program designed to teach Learning Disabled junior high school students to set realistic achievement goals, to expend effort to reach the goals, and to accept personal responsibility for achievement outcomes was conducted with 61 LD adolescents attending four junior high schools. Students were randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. Goal setting strategies and effort attribution training were introduced for a six‐week period. Pre‐ to posttesting indicated that the experimental group learned to set realistic goals and to attribute achievement outcomes to the amount of personal effort expended.