Repeat level preparatory school students’ causal dimensionality and their causal attributions to perceived success and failure

Download

index.pdf

Date

2019

Author

Bıçak, Sevinç

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

244
views

76
downloads

This study investigates the causal dimensionality patterns and causal attributions of repeat level students at a preparatory school of a state university to their perceived success or failure. The study employed a mixed methods sequential explanatory design, and was conducted in two phases: a quantitative phase, followed by a qualitative phase. The quantitative data regarding the students’ causal dimensionality and specific causal attributions to success or failure were collected through CDS II and LAAS from 254 students, respectively. The detailed and in-depth qualitative data were gathered via semi-structured interviews with 24 students and 8 teachers. The quantitative data were analyzed through SPSS (20.0) while the qualitative data were analyzed through content analysis by using ATLAS.ti 7 software. The findings revealed that a big majority of the students considered themselves unsuccessful both in English Proficiency Exam (EPE) and in learning English, irrespective of gender or type of high school they graduated from, and that they tended to attribute their success or failure mostly to external and personally-uncontrollable causes, indicating a maladaptive attributional style. Both maladaptive and adaptive students ascribed their failure to school-related causes most, followed by exam-specific causes, task difficulty, and family and social life-related causes in the external category, while they referred to psychological and mental causes, lack of effort and strategy, little motivation or interest, lack of knowledge, attendance and health problems, age factor and lack of ability in the internal group. Teachers came up with similar causes to those from their students. Implications and suggestions were provided for the given results.

Subject Keywords

Preparatory school students., Academic achievement., Educational psychology., College students.

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12623166/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/28088

Collections

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Predicting college student success college engagement and perceived English language proficiency Çapa Aydın, Yeşim; Barutçu Yıldırım, Kadriye Funda; Çağ, Pınar (2015-01-01) The purpose of the present study was to test a model predicting student gains and academic success (GPA) through perceived English language proficiency and student engagement. The participants of the study were 1109 college students enrolled in a large state university in Turkey where medium of instruction is English. Structural Equation Modeling was used to analyze the data gathered through a web-based survey instrument. Findings indicated that, engagement with the instructors, peers and campus events and ...
Differentiated Function of School in Socio-Culturally Disadvantaged Context: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study from Turkey Caliskan, Zuhal Zeybekoglu; Simsek, Hasan; Kondakçı, Yaşar (2017-09-01) This study analyses the functioning of a school as a social system in an atypical context with the purpose of generating propositions to tackle educational problems confronted by socially and economically disadvantaged groups attending these schools. Adopting the constructivist grounded theory, the analysis suggests that there is a kind of “vicious cycle” in the functioning of this atypical school, which adversely affects the school system. Breaking the vicious cycle involves five basic propositions: (1) ma...
Middle school students' proportional reasoning in real life contexts in the domain of geometry and measurement Ayan Civak, Rukiye; IŞIKSAL BOSTAN, MİNE (2019-01-01) The purpose of this study was to examine middle school students' proportional reasoning, solution strategies and difficulties in real life contexts in the domain of geometry and measurement. The underlying reasons of the difficulties were investigated as well. Mixed research design was adopted for the aims of the study by collecting data through an achievement test from 935 sixth, seventh and eighth grade students. The achievement test included real life problems that required proportional reasoning, and we...
Predictors of body image among university students Yumurtacı, Duygu; Demir, Ayhan Gürbüz; Department of Educational Sciences (2012) This thesis aimed to investigate predictors of body image which were irrational beliefs, socially-prescribed perfectionism, social comparison, physical activity level and satisfaction with life among university students. Participants were included of 790 undergraduate students from different departments of in a large state university and sample is selected according to convenience sampling method. Multidimensional Body Self Relations Scale, Irrational Beliefs Scale-Short, Socially-Prescribed Perfectionism S...
Self efficacy and previous testing experiences as predictors of test anxiety among college students Çapa Aydın, Yeşim (null; 2002-10-19) This study examined how college students' test anxiety related to previous testing experiences and self-efficacy. Participants were 29 undergraduate college students enrolled at a Midwestern university. Instruments used to measure the criterion and predictor variables were: Test Anxiety Scale, College Academic Self-efficacy Scale, Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale, and Previous Testing Experience Scale. Two separate simultaneous multiple regression analyses were performed to answer the research questions. Res...

Citation Formats

S. Bıçak, “Repeat level preparatory school students’ causal dimensionality and their causal attributions to perceived success and failure,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2019.