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The Effects of Manipulating Self-Concept on Learning and Classroom Performance.

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Title: The Effects of Manipulating Self-Concept on Learning and Classroom Performance.
Language: English
Authors: Sharp, George Lawrence
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 13
Publication Date: 1977
Document Type: Reports - Research
Speeches/Meeting Papers
Descriptors: Achievement, Behavior Change, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Counselor Role, Performance Factors, Self Concept, Self Esteem, Test Interpretation
Geographic Terms: U.S.; New Mexico
Abstract: In 1976, Muller and Spuhler found support for the proposition that self-concept influenced achievement. This experiment was designed to challenge their findings by demonstrating that when self-concept is lowered in a therapeutic manner, no deficit in achievement will result. The experimenter adjusted the self-concepts of college students regarding ability to learn a foreign language, and than measured performance on a paired-associates learning task. Subjects (N=16) were randomly assigned to one of four treatment conditions: self-concept lowered therapeutically, self-concept lowered counter-therapeutically, self-concept raised, and control. Self-concepts were raised or lowered by providing each subject with a false score on a foreign language aptitude test. When self-concept was lowered therapeutically, a very low aptitude score was presented nonjudgmentally and the acceptability of that score was emphasized. When self-concept was lowered counter-therapeutically, the score's unacceptability was emphasized. Each subject then learned a paired-associates task. The mean learning task performance level for the counter-therapeutically lowered group was inferior to those of the other three groups, which were equal. (Author)
Notes: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association (El Paso, Texas, November, 1977)
Journal Code: RIESEP1979
Entry Date: 1979
Accession Number: ED169463
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