Perry & Penner, 1990: Attributing academic performance to effort improved academic achievement among undergraduate students one week later
Reference:
Perry, R. P., & Penner, K. S. (1990). Enhancing academic achievement in college students through attributional retraining and instruction. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82(2), 262.
Download PDFSummary:
Undergraduate introductory psychology students watched an 8-minute video in which a university professor described overcoming repeated failure in college to succeed in university and graduate school and encouraged students to attribute poor performance to inadequate effort and good performance to ability and proper effort. As compared to a no-video randomized control condition, this improved student achievement on a test 1 week later, especially for students with an external locus of control.
Psychological Process:
What Desired Meaning is At Stake?
What is the Person Trying to Understand?
Selves (My Own and Others')How?
Psychological Question Addressed
Does struggling mean I can’t do it?Does struggling mean I can’t do it?Psychological Question Addressed
Does struggling mean I can’t do it?Psychological Process 2:
Psychological Process 3:
Social Area:
Education
Intervention Technique:
Direct labeling, of an aspect of self; Prompting with information