About the Measure
| Domains | Meta-cognition, Perceptions of Self |
| Key stages | Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5 |
| Subscales | Internal positive events; Internal negative events |
| Description | Assessing children's beliefs on their responsibility for academic successes and failures. |
| Example | When you do well on a test at school, it is more likely to be: a) because you studied for it VS; b) because the test was especia |
| Link | Crandall, V. C., Katkovsky, W., & Crandall, V. J. (1965). Children's beliefs in their own control of reinforcements in intellectual-academic achievement situations. Child Development, 36(1) 91-109. doi:10.2307/1126783 |
| Psychometry | |
| Implementation |
Implementation details
| No. of items | 34 |
| Format | Dichotomous |
| Respondent | Self |
| Scoring | Standardised |
| Time | 0 |
| Age | 9-18 |
| Cost single purchase | Available in jou |
| Cost per child | Available in jou |
Psychometric details
| UK norms | Yes |
| Cronbach's α | Split ha |
| Test retest | 2 months, r= [.47,.74] |
| Inter-rater reliability | Not reported |
| EFA | Not reported |
| CFA | Not reported |
| Criterion validity | Not reported |
| Construct validity | r> .34 with Iowa Tests of Basic skills in grades 3 and 4 |
| Concurrent validity | Not reported |
| Predictive validity | Not reported |
| Responsiveness | Not reported |
| Floor/Ceiling | Not reported |
| References | Crandall, V. C., Katkovsky, W., & Crandall, V. J. (1965). Children's beliefs in their own control of reinforcements in intellectual-academic achievement situations. Child Development, 36(1) 91-109. doi:10.2307/1126783 Reid, I., & Croucher, A. (1980). The Crandall Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire: A British validation study. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 40(1), 255-258. doi:10.1177/00131644800400014 Furnham, A., & Steele, H. (1993). Measuring locus of control: A critique of general, children's, health‐and work‐related locus of control questionnaires. British Journal of Psychology, 84(4), 443-479. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1993.tb02495.x |