Rose, Hall, Bolen, and Webster (1996) reported relationships among course grade, locus of control, students' approaches to learning, and other factors. Some of the relationships they report are as expected: for instance, absences from class correlate negatively with course grade, and internal locus of control correlates positively with GPA and course grade. The results for students' approaches to learning are puzzling, however. An inspection of the internal consistency of their data suggests that there may be some errors in the way the data have been collected, scored, or reported.
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