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A COMPARISON OF TEACHERS', PUPILS' AND PARENTS' ATTRIBUTIONS REGARDING PUPILS' ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
Author(s) -
BARTAL D.,
GUTTMANN J.
Publication year - 1981
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.2044-8279.1981.tb02488.x
Subject(s) - psychology , attribution , developmental psychology , mathematics education , social psychology
S ummary . This study compared attributions of teachers, pupils, and parents regarding pupils' academic success or failure. Eighty pupils were asked to indicate the extent to which each of the 10 given causes influenced their achieved grade. In addition, 8 teachers and 50 parents were given the same questionnaire and were asked to explain the achievements of the pupils. The results showed that teachers attributed pupils' success mainly to themselves and to the pupils, pupils attributed their success mainly to themselves and to the teacher, and parents attributed their children's success mainly to themselves and to the teacher. In case of failure, teachers and pupils shared the responsibility for the outcome with each other and with the parents, while the parents shared the responsibility mainly with the pupils or cited external causes.