What Lies Beneath: The Role of Self-Efficacy, Causal Attribution Habits, and Gender in Accounting for the Success of College Students

Existing research has identified gender as a driving variable of student success in higher education: women attend college at a higher rate and are also more successful than their male peers. We build on the extant literature by asking whether specific cognitive variables (i.e., self-efficacy and ca...

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Main Authors: Kerstin Hamann, Maura A. E. Pilotti, Bruce M. Wilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Education Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/11/7/333