HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS-ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS TOWARD SLOW LEARNERS
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 89 (2) , 156-166
Abstract
The relationship between high school students'' attitudes and their involvement in their school''s peer-tutoring program for "slow learners" was examined. Predictions about how attitudes would be related to behavior were derived from theories about attitude-behavior consistency. Students'' attitudes toward people who receive tutoring were unrelated to their peer-tutoring behavior, whereas there was a trend for their attitudes toward their own tutees to predict whether thy met with their tutees. The best predictor of peer-tutoring behavior was students'' intentions to tutor. Both intentions and behavior were correlated with students'' attitudes toward this behavior. Results were interpreted as demonstrating the value of using an empirical validated theoretical approach to predicting behavior toward slow learners.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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