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ATTITUDINAL CORRELATES OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
Author(s) -
BANRETIFUCHS K. M.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1978.tb02383.x
Subject(s) - psychology , academic achievement , homogeneous , developmental psychology , regression analysis , statistics , mathematics , physics , thermodynamics
S ummary . The relationship between three levels of academic achievement and various attitudinal variables was investigated. Using the regression equation method, a sample of 275 male and 263 female grade six elementary school children were assigned to an under‐achieving, average‐achieving, or over‐achieving group. The children completed three attitude tests, and the items which discriminated between the three groups were subjected to factor analysis. For the boys five factors were identified, and for the girls four. Subsequently, the average‐achieving subjects, males as well as females, were subdivided in terms of intelligence into three groups, and the items which discriminated between these subgroups were subjected to factor analysis. Twelve factors were identified for the boys and five for the girls, indicating that the average‐achievers do not constitute a homogeneous group with regard to the attitudinal correlates of academic achievement. These correlates vary apparently not only as a function of level of academic achievement, but as a combined function of level of academic achievement and intelligence.