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perceived selfefficacy, attitude toward math and math performance is statistically significant.
Males scored higher on selfefficacy and females scored higher on math performance but the
differences were not statistically significant.
1084.4 The relationship between attributional style and academic motive with academic
achievement, Mehrnaz Shahraray, Valiollah Farzad, Alireza Zarei, University for teacher
training, Iran
Three-hundred and seventy (170 female and 210 male) secondary school students in Arak, Iran
completed the academic motivation scale (vallerand et al., 1989) and the attributional styles
questionnaire (peterson and seligman, 1982). Results indicated that there was a positive
relationship between achievement motive and academic achievement. No relationshjip was found
between attributional style and academic achievement. A positive relationship was found between
achievement motive and atrributional styles (successful and unsuccessful events in
internal-external, general-specific and stable-unstable dimenstions). The relationship between
achievement motive and attributional styles ( unsuccessful events in internal-external dimenstions)
was negative.
1084.5 College academic success predictors: A cross-cultural study, John Marasigan,
Kwantlen University College, Canada
How do college students who speak English as a second language (ESL) compare with English
native speaker students? At Kwantlen University College in British Columbia, the largest
Canadian university college, a random sample of 429 ESL and 338 native speaker first year
students during academic year 2002-2003 are compared on 26 predictors of GPA. Predictors range
from current number of courses to civil status. Analyses, including ANOVA, multiple regression,
and discriminant function, yielded significant values useful to educators and students. This
investigation continues as a longitudinal study until the sample completes post-secondary
education.
1084.6 The role of self-efficacy beliefs, self-regulation and intelligence in school performance
among secondary school first grade students, Parvin Kadivar, Teacher Training University, Iran
This research was conducted to examine the role of self-efficacy, self-regulation and intelligence
in school achievement of junior high school students.A total of 60 classes of male and female first
graders were randomly selected from the secondary schools in Tehran to participate in the study.
Self-regulated learning in this study stress the importance of integrated components of the
motivational as well as cognitive strategies (various cognitive and metacognitive strategies)that
students use to control their learning.Analysis of the data indicated that intelligence,self-efficacy
beliefs and self-regulation variables made indipendent contribution of the prediction of school
achievement.
1084.7 Effects of collaborative writing on high school students’writing performance, Shaozhen
Tan, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
With the shift in writing pedagogy from product to process, from emphasizing the individual
writing"in a vacuum" to emphasizing the social context of writing, collaborative writing becomes
an important research field in writing psychology. The present study selected two classes (1st
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