Causal attributions for success or failure by passing and failing students in college algebra

Cortes-Suarez, Georgina

doi:10.25148/etd.fi14061526

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“…In the situation above, successful students tend to account for their success through their abilities and efforts and account for their failure through not being able to make enough efforts, which helps these students to be proud of themselves. The unsuccessful students thinking that they will be successful as long as they make necessary efforts to adopt positive attitudes towards themselves (Cortes-Suarez, 2004). The students stated that they did not like science and technology, and mathematics classes viewed as quantitative subjects as they cannot do, understand, and feel that they are unsuccessful.…”

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confidence: 99%

Success and Failure in Science Education: A Focus Group Study on Turkish Students

Güler

2013

JBSE

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This study aims to investigate primary school students' success and failure in science courses. The participants of the study included 24 students enrolled in the 8th grade of a secondary school and focus group interviews were held. It was observed in the study that the successful students focused more on science and mathematics classes, while the unsuccessful students did more on verbal classes. Considering the topics the successful group considered related to the science class, the students in the successful group focused on the knowledge that made their life easier and that they could use in their life, while the unsuccessful group paid more attention to the importance of the topic. Moreover, it was observed that both groups used similar learning strategies. According to the findings of the study, it can be claimed that the interest and the support of the family and social environment play an important role in success in science class. Keywords: focus group, primary education, science education, science courses.

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Success and Failure in Science Education: A Focus Group Study on Turkish Students

Güler

2013

JBSE

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“…A wealth of research in the field of attribution theory and academic achievement has suggested a link between students' attributions and academic performance (e.g., Cortes-Suarez, 2004;Kistner, Osborne & le Verrier, 1988;Marsh, 1984;Stipek & Hoffman, 1980). In examining the attributional patterns of passing and failing students in a college algebra course, Cortes-Suarez (2004) found that students passing the course made significantly fewer stability attributions than students who were failing.…”

Section: Attribution Theorymentioning

confidence: 97%

“…In examining the attributional patterns of passing and failing students in a college algebra course, Cortes-Suarez (2004) found that students passing the course made significantly fewer stability attributions than students who were failing. Similarly, Thomas and Mathieu (1994) found marginal evidence suggesting that attributing performance to stable causes predicts lower levels of performance (but these correlations were not significant).…”

Section: Attribution Theorymentioning

confidence: 98%

Getting off on the wrong foot: Longitudinal effects of Hispanic students' stability attributions following poor initial test performance

Cox

Yang

2012

Learning and Individual Differences

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“…Theorizing into this section seems inevitable as it will help students to rhetorically organize the chapter and hence achieve the communicative purpose. Research in the area of thesis/ dissertation writing has evolved in the last few decades all over the world (e.g., (Bunton, 2002;Dudley-Evans, 1999). However, there has not been much work done concerning the postulating of theoretical frameworks and investigation into the area of reviewing the literature.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Swales and Swales (1990) highlighted this point and drew our attention to the dearth of work in this area of research mainly because of the gigantic size of the text of theses/dissertations. Bunton (2002) acknowledged the fundamental and pivotal position of LR in the domain of Academic Writing but similarly pointed to the limited research on LRs ascribing to its length. Another probable justification for the dearth of research carried out in this part-genre of thesis writing has been described aptly by Swales and Feak (2000):…”

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Generic Moves in The Literature Review Section of PhD Dissertations

Anjum¹,

Masroor²

2023

Pak. J. Humanit. Soc. Sci

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The dissertation/thesis as an academic genre has evolved in academic circles in the past 30 years or so. Research into various aspects of the academic genres in general and thesis writing, in particular, started more than two decades ago. However, not much research has been carried out regarding the theorizing of literature review writing as a separate genre in theses, especially in non-native English contexts. The present study aimed to fill the theoretical voids in the research area of Literature Review (LR) section in thesis writing in Pakistani academic settings; thus this study probes into the process of construction of literature reviewing to find out that how students organise this section and deal with the potential problems as an analytical piece of writing with sound argumentation. The current study has investigated the schematic patterns in the literature review through the framework of move analysis in genre theory. The data was drawn from fifteen (15) doctoral theses in the field of English linguistics. The methodology allows for an in-depth coding of the LR chapters in theses to investigate the rhetorical organization. In the coding process, the study has also taken insights from the two previous models of Kwan (2006) and Swales’ seminal CARS model (1990) in order to study the moves (and steps) as rhetorical units. The results of the study reflect the dominant presence of Move 1, Move 2 and Move 4, whereas the employment of Move 3 is comparatively less which justifies the worth of writer’s work. This reveals that the students resort to these moves more often to perform a ritual of literature reviewing and in dire need to be trained enough to craft the LRs argumentatively. Thus, researchers have proposed a revised model to overcome the shortcoming.

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Causal attributions for success or failure by passing and failing students in college algebra

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Success and Failure in Science Education: A Focus Group Study on Turkish Students

Success and Failure in Science Education: A Focus Group Study on Turkish Students

Getting off on the wrong foot: Longitudinal effects of Hispanic students' stability attributions following poor initial test performance

Generic Moves in The Literature Review Section of PhD Dissertations

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