This study investigates the impact of instructors' positive comments on academic resiliency and student performance. Not only is academic resiliency a stable trait, but we hypothesis that it may be induced or impeded; i.e. academic resiliency is malleable. The Academic Self-Efficacy Scale, Academic Locus of Control Scale, and the Academic Conscientiousness Scale were collected as covariates. It was predicted that participants randomly assigned to the positive teacher support condition would score better on the final exam and demonstrate increased academic resiliency compared to a baseline measure. Conversely, participants randomly assigned to the negative teacher support condition should do poorly on the exam and demonstrate reduced academic resiliency compared to a baseline measure. There were of73 undergraduate participants (13 male, 60 female) with a median age of 22 (SD=7 .19) recruited from a large Southeastern university students who were enrolled in two web-based courses.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ucf.edu/oai:stars.library.ucf.edu:honorstheses1990-2015-1536 |
| Date | 01 January 2006 |
| Creators | Fullick, Julia |
| Publisher | STARS |
| Source Sets | University of Central Florida |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | HIM 1990-2015 |
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