This research aimed at knowing the relation between casual attribution, and scholastic
Achievement Motivation on a sample of superior And ordinary students, and at knowing the
differences between the two sorts of each sample the research depended o
n the descriptive and
analytic method by using casual attribution scale which has been designed by the researcher the
sample was (288) students of males and females from the eighth grade at schools of superior And
ordinary in Lattakia governorate: The results were as follows:
There is a statistical significant positive correlative relation between attribution of (effort
making) and scholastic Achievement Motivation of ordinary students students while there is no
statistical significant correlative relation between the other casual attributions (the ability, the luck
(chance), the task difficulty, (the mixed attribution) and scholastic Achievement Motivation. There
is a statistical significant positive correlative relation between each of (the ability attribution, the
effort attribution, the task difficulty attribution, and between scholastic Achievement Motivation of
superior students, while there is no statistical significant correlative relation between, the luck
attribution, and the mixed attribution, and scholastic Achievement Motivation. There are statistical
significant differences between the mean scores of ordinary students responses and superior
students ones according to casual attribution scale except for the mixed attribution, and there are
differences according to scholastic Achievement Motivation scale in favor of the superior students.
There are no a statistical significant differences between the mean scores of male students
responses and female students ones according to both scales the casual attribution and scholastic
Achievement Motivation.