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Distinguishing Direct and Indirect Effects of Executive Functions on Reading Comprehension in Adolescents
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Ober, Teresa M.; Brooks, Patricia J.; Plass, Jan L.; Homer, Bruce D. – Reading Psychology, 2019
This study investigated direct and indirect effects of executive functions on reading comprehension in adolescents (N = 87, M = 14.0 years, SD = 1.5) by testing for parallel mediation of effects of working memory, task-switching, and inhibitory control via decoding and text recall/inference. Working memory showed direct and indirect effects on…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Comprehension, Executive Function, Recall (Psychology)
Predictors of Effective Leadership in Industry--Should Engineering Education Focus on Traditional Intelligence, Personality, or Emotional Intelligence?
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Lappalainen, Pia – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Despite the changing global and industrial conditions requiring new approaches to leadership, management training as part of higher engineering education still remains understudied. The subsequent gap in engineering education calls for research on today's leader requirements and pedagogy supporting the inclusion of management competence in higher…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Intelligence, Personality Traits, Emotional Intelligence
Assessing Intellectual Potential in Tanzanian Children in Poor Areas of Dar es Salaam
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Humble, Steve; Dixon, Pauline; Schagen, Ian – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2018
The research set out in this paper attempts to identify whether one of three conventional IQ tests is more capable of identifying intellectual potential amongst poor children in Dar es Salaam. To this end 1857 children from 17 government schools in poor districts of Dar es Salaam were asked to complete a questionnaire and undertake a range of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligence Tests, Poverty, Public Schools
Little Relation of Adult Age with Cognition after Controlling General Influences
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Salthouse, Timothy A. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Both general (i.e., shared across different cognitive measures) and specific (i.e., unique to particular cognitive measures) influences can be postulated to contribute to the relations between adult age and measures of cognitive functioning. Estimates of general and specific influences on measures of memory, speed, reasoning, and spatial…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Influences
The Contribution of School-Related Parental Monitoring, Self-Determination, and Self-Efficacy to Academic Achievement
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Affuso, Gaetana; Bacchini, Dario; Miranda, Maria Concetta – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The aim of this study was to examine the contribution of school-related parental monitoring (SR-PM), self-determined motivation, and academic self-efficacy to academic achievement across time. The authors hypothesized that SR-PM would affect academic achievement indirectly via its effects on self-determined motivation and academic self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Analysis of Age Differences in Types of Errors on the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices.
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Babcock, Renee L. – Intelligence, 2002
Data for the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices test from 3 large studies for a total of 818 adults show that although older adults perform like low-ability young adults when the measure of interest is the number correct, there does not seem to be an age-related difference in the type of reasoning used. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Age Differences, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests