Causal attribution of academic success-failure: A cross-cultural study involving Argentina and Brazil

The research project of Causal Attribution of Academic Success-Failure in Latin America is oriented towards the study of interpersonal explanation about academic performance and the collective opinion regarding school performance in endo and exogroups. The theoretical background is based upon Wei...

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Autores principales: Omar, Alicia, Uribe Delgado, Hugo, Assmar, Eveline
Formato: Book chapter
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Psychologii PAN 2011
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/2133/1824
http://hdl.handle.net/2133/1824
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topic academic performance
causal attribution
Academic Success-Failure
Latin America
Argentina
Brazil
numerical and symbolic data
multidimensional analyses
spellingShingle academic performance
causal attribution
Academic Success-Failure
Latin America
Argentina
Brazil
numerical and symbolic data
multidimensional analyses
Omar, Alicia
Uribe Delgado, Hugo
Assmar, Eveline
Causal attribution of academic success-failure: A cross-cultural study involving Argentina and Brazil
topic_facet academic performance
causal attribution
Academic Success-Failure
Latin America
Argentina
Brazil
numerical and symbolic data
multidimensional analyses
description The research project of Causal Attribution of Academic Success-Failure in Latin America is oriented towards the study of interpersonal explanation about academic performance and the collective opinion regarding school performance in endo and exogroups. The theoretical background is based upon Weiner and Mc Clelland’s formulations. Groups of Argentinean and Brazilian secondary students classified as “successful” and “not successful” by their mathematics and social science grades teachers, were analysed. Multidimensional analyses of numerical and symbolic data revealed several different relationships between active (nationality, sex, schools, etc.) and illustrative (dimensional meaning of attributional causes and motivational orientation) variables. The theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed in terms of socio-educational values in the Argentinean and Brazilian cultures.
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author Omar, Alicia
Uribe Delgado, Hugo
Assmar, Eveline
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Uribe Delgado, Hugo
Assmar, Eveline
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title Causal attribution of academic success-failure: A cross-cultural study involving Argentina and Brazil
title_short Causal attribution of academic success-failure: A cross-cultural study involving Argentina and Brazil
title_full Causal attribution of academic success-failure: A cross-cultural study involving Argentina and Brazil
title_fullStr Causal attribution of academic success-failure: A cross-cultural study involving Argentina and Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Causal attribution of academic success-failure: A cross-cultural study involving Argentina and Brazil
title_sort causal attribution of academic success-failure: a cross-cultural study involving argentina and brazil
publisher Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Instytutu Psychologii PAN
publishDate 2011
url http://hdl.handle.net/2133/1824
http://hdl.handle.net/2133/1824
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