Attribution studies in social psychology predict that people tend to attribute the cause of natural disasters to factors associated with humans as opposed to nature per Se. The victims of natural disaster often consider natural disaster to be the result of not only natural forces but also human actions. This...
Statement of the problem:
The study sought to determine whether certain
measurable differences existed between students who had
withdrawn after acceptance into the accelerated mathematics
classes in the Portland schools and students who
had persisted after acceptance into the program. Examined
were: scores on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills,...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not
change has occurred in the scholastic background and academic ability
of students attending the junior high school summer sessions of
the Santa Monica Unified School District, California, between the
years 1956 and 1962.
Applying a Fisher and Yates Table...