Abstract
The study investigated the academic locus of control of high and low achieving undergraduate students. It also explored the
gender differences in terms of academic locus of control and the relationship between academic locus of control and
academic achievement . Sample of the study consisted of 187 (126 high and 61 low) achieving BSc final year students.
Independent group research design and purposive sampling technique was used in this study. Academic locus of control scale
developed by Trice (1985) was administered. The scale classifies the students having scores from 0-14 as internals and with
the score above than 14 as externals. Two –Factor ANOVA, correlation and simple linear regression was used to analyze the
data. Results indicated a significant main effect of achiever and gender and no interaction between gender and achiever was
found. High achieving students scored low on academic locus of control which indicates their strong internal academic
orientation than low achieving students. Interestingly study indicated that high as well as low achieving students both hold an
internal academic belief system towards the academic situations. Women are significantly high on an internal academic locus
of control indicating less internal academic orientation than men. Results also indicated a significant inverse relationship
between academic locus of control and GPA and simple linear regression indicated that academic locus of control is a
predictor of GPA. The study has wide implications for the psychologists, educationists, teachers and students.
Syeda Salma Hasan, Ruhi Khalid. (2014) Academic Locus of Control of High and Low Achieving Students, Journal of Research and Reflections in Education, Volume 8, Issue 1.
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