The Mathematics Attribution Scale-Algebra (MAS) was designed to assess attributions to ability, effort, task, and environment for success and failure in algebra. The present study examined the reliability and-validity of the MAS with high ability high school students. The results of this study present a complicated picture of the psychometric properties of the MAS.
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