Self-concept of ability and school achievement, the relationship of self-images to achievement in junior high school subjects [microform] / Wilbur B. Brookover and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5182792
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Brookover, Wilbur B
- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1962
- 112 p.
- Summary:
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Various experimental evidence has shown that self-concept of ability is related to school achievement and is capable of measurement. A self-concept of ability scale was developed in two forms--(1) general self-concept of ability and (2) self-concept of ability in specific school subjects. Major results of the study revealed that (1) seventh-grade girls had significantly higher mean self-concept of ability scores than seventh-grade boys, (2) self-concept of ability was significantly related to school achievement of seventh-grade boys and girls (the correlation was .57 for each sex), (3) self-concept of ability was positively related to school achievement in the seventh grade when measured intelligence was controlled, (4) the correlation between self-concept of ability and measured intelligence was .46 for boys and .48 for girls, and (5) self-concept of ability in four specific school subjects was related to seventh-grade achievement in those subjects to approximately the same degree that general self-concept to ability was related to achievement in the four subjects combined. The report concluded that self-concept of ability functions independently of measured intelligence in predicting school achievement. Experimental treatments designed to enhance a student's self-concept of ability and thus improve his school achievement are being undertaken in cooperative research project 1636 (ED 003 294) entitled, "improvement of academic achievement through students' self-concept enhancement." (tc)
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Coll. of Education
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- ERIC
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