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Personal Causation Training in the Schools 1
Author(s) -
DECHARMS RICHARD
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1972.tb01266.x
Subject(s) - causation , psychology , perception , mathematics education , training (meteorology) , social psychology , epistemology , neuroscience , physics , meteorology , philosophy
Black elementary school teachers received personal causation training and designed and implemented classroom exercises for their sixth and seventh grade classes. Results of this field experiment showed increased motivation of teachers and students, enhanced academic achievement of students and students' perceptions of being treated as Origins. The Origin‐Pawn variable was found to mediate between personal causation and academic achievement.