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Akdeniz, Hakan; Saytekin, Gizem Nazli – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2020
This research was designed with the aim of determining whether the self-confidence behaviors and leadership behaviors of students who are placed on the basis of YGS points and the aptitude tests of Kocaeli University differ in terms of various demographical characteristics and making suggestions on the basis of research. The research population…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Foreign Countries, Self Esteem, Gender Differences
Cook, Emily E.; Turner, Sarah – AERA Open, 2019
When students with the capacity to succeed in a 4-year college do not take a college admission test, this represents a potential loss of opportunity for students and colleges alike. However, the costs of testing--both pecuniary and nonpecuniary--may exceed the benefits for students who lack the interest in or qualifications for college attendance.…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High School Graduates, Aptitude Tests, High Schools
Özparlak, Çagla Serin – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2022
This study was carried out with the aim of determining the opinions and digital literacy status of the students who are preparing for the music talent exams of the universities during the COVID-19 process. The research is in the survey model, which is one of the quantitative research methods and is limited to 300 students who took the music…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Technological Literacy, Music Education, High Schools
Allen, Jeff; Anguiano-Carrasco, Cristina; Walton, Kate E. – ACT, Inc., 2022
This paper documents the development of the Mosaic Readiness Index, a score that is reported for individuals who take the high school version of Mosaic by ACT®: Social Emotional Learning Assessment (hereafter referred to as the Mosaic assessment). The Mosaic Readiness Index is designed to predict high school academic outcomes--namely high school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Aptitude Tests, Social Emotional Learning, Predictor Variables
James Lewis Sellers – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore how district funding for 4 years of PSAT administrations for all students in Grades 8-11 impacted Hispanic students at a North Texas school district. Using college admissions data from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC), the researcher examined overall district-wide college admissions percentages for…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, High Schools, College Entrance Examinations, Testing
Schermer, Julie Aitken; Krammer, Georg; Goffin, Richard D.; Biderman, Michael D. – Journal of Intelligence, 2020
The differentiation of personality by intelligence hypothesis suggests that there will be greater individual differences in personality traits for those individuals who are more intelligent. Conversely, less intelligent individuals will be more similar to each other in their personality traits. The hypothesis was tested with a large sample of…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Intelligence, Individual Differences
Carmichael, Ryan – Online Submission, 2019
All studies with randomized controlled experiments (scientific studies) on the effectiveness of SAT test preparation courses were analyzed to find SAT prep's true effectiveness (the average point change to average course hours ratio). The scientific studies complete with both known average point change and known average course length (complete…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Aptitude Tests, Test Preparation, Outcomes of Education
Vercellotti, Mary Lou – Sign Language Studies, 2022
Experience with a visual-spatial language may influence certain cognitive processes (Keehner and Gathercole 2007). Spatial ability is an important cognitive skill (Linn and Petersen 1985). Some research has found that deaf signers outperform hearing nonsigners on certain spatial tasks (e.g., Emmorey, Kosslyn, and Bellugi 1993) and that hearing…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spatial Ability
Concepción Soto; Monika S. Schmid – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Despite the extensive research on bilingual development, our understanding of how lexical competition unfolds in the bilingual mind remains limited. Previous studies have predominantly focused on crosslinguistic competition, neglecting the examination of the competition process within each language and the influence of diverse bilingual…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Speech Communication, Bilingualism, Native Language
Shen, Wangbing; Liu, Zongying; Ball, Linden J.; Huang, Taozhen; Yuan, Yuan; Bai, Haiping; Hua, Meifeng – Creativity Research Journal, 2020
Previous studies have revealed that creative advertisements are recognized and recalled better than their less creative counterparts. Remembering and forgetting are two sides of the same coin of memory, denoting memory's storage and elimination functions, respectively, which can both potentially impact advertising effectiveness. To date, there…
Descriptors: Advertising, Creativity, Retention (Psychology), Recall (Psychology)
Schreurs, Sanne; Cleutjens, Kitty; Collares, Carlos F.; Cleland, Jennifer; oude Egbrink, Mirjam G. A. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2020
Medical school selection is currently in the paradoxical situation in which selection tools may predict study outcomes, but which constructs are actually doing the predicting is unknown (the 'black box of selection'). Therefore, our research focused on those constructs, answering the question: do the internal structures of the tests in an…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Selection Criteria, College Admission, Prediction
Sugano, Shalom Grace C.; Mamolo, Leo A. – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2021
The need to assess and understand students' strengths in choosing their future careers is essential. Aptitude exams like the National Career Assessment Examination (NCAE) and Academic performance via Grades are important data used as the basis for determining student career strength. This study employed descriptive-correlational research, where…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Grade 10, Secondary School Students
Crumb, Loni; Chambers, Crystal R.; Chittum, Jessica – Rural Educator, 2021
Too often research studies on Black boys emanate from deficit orientations and take a problem-centered approach that overemphasizes stereotypes or pathologizes Black male students, overlooking their aspirations and successes. Utilizing the High School Longitudinal Survey of 2009 (HSLS: 09), we examined the postsecondary goals of rural Black male…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Rural Youth, Academic Aspiration
Sedaghatgoftar, Nasrin; Karimi, Mohammad N.; Babaii, Esmat; Reiterer, Susanne M. – Cogent Education, 2019
The present study aimed at developing a second language pragmatic aptitude test. To do so, the relevant literature was consulted, different components contributing to pragmatics aptitude were identified and tabulated and test items were developed for each component. The outcome was a test comprising four sections, i.e. memory for pragmatic rule…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Aptitude Tests, Pragmatics, Test Construction
Raykov, Tenko; Marcoulides, George A.; Dimitrov, Dimiter M.; Li, Tatyana – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2018
This article extends the procedure outlined in the article by Raykov, Marcoulides, and Tong for testing congruence of latent constructs to the setting of binary items and clustering effects. In this widely used setting in contemporary educational and psychological research, the method can be used to examine if two or more homogeneous…
Descriptors: Tests, Psychometrics, Test Items, Construct Validity