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Direct linkDemirtas-Zorbaz, Selen – Contemporary School Psychology, 2020
The purpose of this study is to reveal the factors influential on adolescents' social competence within the frame of a model. Based on this purpose, the study was carried out in two phases. Initially, data were collected from 283 high school students for the validity and reliability studies of Positive-Negative Perfectionism Scale adolescent form.…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Interpersonal Competence, Anxiety, Academic Ability
Download full textRoloff, Janina; Klusmann, Uta; Lüdtke, Oliver; Trautwein, Ulrich – AERA Open, 2020
The present study investigated to what degree teachers' personality traits, cognitive abilities, and academic abilities (high school GPA), which were assessed at the end of high school as well as grades from the first and second state examinations of teacher education, predict later instructional quality. The study combined ratings of…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Personality Traits, Cognitive Ability, Academic Ability
Gaerlan-Price, Eunice; Wardman, Janna; Bruce, Toni – Education Sciences, 2021
The field of gifted and talented studies has its origins in the intelligence quotient research of the late 19th and early 20th century. These psychological foundations remain a strong influence even though the field has since expanded to include other paradigms and greater diversity in conceptions of giftedness and talent. Some researchers argue…
Descriptors: Females, Talent, Interdisciplinary Approach, Environmental Influences
Ganimian, Alejandro; Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Biehl, María Loreto; Cortelezzi, María Ángela – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2020
We evaluate a long-standing program run by one of the largest education foundations in Argentina that offers scholarships and nonacademic mentoring to secondary school students. We randomly assigned 408 grade 6 students within 10 public schools in the Province of Buenos Aires to either receive the program throughout secondary school or not to…
Descriptors: Mentors, Scholarships, Program Evaluation, Grade 6
Atwood, Sara A.; Pretz, Jean E. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Background: To date, there has been little research to establish how creativity relates to engineering student persistence and academic achievement. Purpose: This study used creativity to predict engineering student persistence and achievement relative to demographics, academic aptitude, and personality. It further evaluated those predictors for…
Descriptors: Creativity, Engineering Education, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
Matteucci, Maria Cristina – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2014
Research on impression management has shown that students can manage their social images by providing attributional self-presentation strategies (ASPSs). Based on the distinction between social desirability judgments and social utility judgments, two studies were conducted to examine the students' understanding of the impact of ASPSs both on…
Descriptors: Social Desirability, Social Status, Undergraduate Students, Profiles
Roszkowski, Michael J.; Nigro, Richard A. – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2015
Admission to honors programs is competitive and typically relies heavily on the applicant's high school grades and SAT scores. Research shows that of the two criteria, the stronger predictor of performance in an honors curriculum is the high school record, which would imply that grades should receive the greater emphasis. We surveyed current…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average, High School Students, Scores
