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Brandon LeBeau; Susan G. Assouline; Megan Foley-Nicpon; Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik; Katherine Schabilion – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2025
Academic acceleration, which enhances challenges for academically gifted students, can be subject-based or whole-grade. Limited research has explored its application in the twice-exceptional population, where students possess notable cognitive strengths and challenges due to psychological diagnoses. Our clinical study investigates the likelihood…
Descriptors: Twice Exceptional, Acceleration (Education), Academically Gifted, Intelligence Quotient
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Guterman, Oz – Education and Urban Society, 2021
Achievement goal theory is one of the major theories of the relationship between learners' perception of learning processes and their academic achievements. The present research was focused on the relationship between learners' goals and the academic achievements of Hebrew-speaking students, who belong to the majority group, and Arabic-speaking…
Descriptors: Student Educational Objectives, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students
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Branigan, Amelia R. – Sociology of Education, 2017
In this study I hypothesize a larger penalty of obesity on teacher-assessed academic performance for white girls in English, where femininity is privileged, than in math, where stereotypical femininity is perceived to be a detriment. This pattern of associations would be expected if obesity largely influences academic performance through social…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, National Surveys, Obesity, Academic Achievement
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Carlson, Abby G.; Rowe, Ellen; Curby, Timothy W. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2013
Recent research has established a connection between children's fine motor skills and their academic performance. Previous research has focused on fine motor skills measured prior to elementary school, while the present sample included children ages 5-18 years old, making it possible to examine whether this link remains relevant throughout…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Academic Achievement, Visual Perception, Perceptual Motor Coordination
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Farris, Jaelyn; Burke Lefever, Jennifer E.; Borkowski, John G.; Whitman, Thomas L. – Early Education and Development, 2013
Research Findings: This study investigated the joint influence of maternal cognitive readiness to parent and children's self-esteem on children's academic achievement and behavioral adjustment in the classroom at age 10. Participants were 153 adolescent mothers and their firstborn children. Findings indicated that low levels of prenatal maternal…
Descriptors: Mothers, Readiness, Parent Attitudes, Self Esteem
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Wicherts, Jelte M.; Dolan, Conor V.; van der Maas, Han L. J. – Intelligence, 2010
On the basis of several reviews of the literature, Lynn [Lynn, R., (2006). Race differences in intelligence: An evolutionary analysis. Augusta, GA: Washington Summit Publishers.] and Lynn and Vanhanen [Lynn, R., & Vanhanen, T., (2006). IQ and global inequality. Augusta, GA: Washington Summit Publishers.] concluded that the average IQ of the…
Descriptors: International Studies, Intelligence Quotient, Foreign Countries, Psychometrics
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Reynolds, Cecil R.; And Others – Journal of School Psychology, 1987
Analyzed data from standardization sample of 1981 Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) to determine relationships of WAIS-R intelligence quotients (IQs) to demographic variables upon which sample was stratified. Found significant differences in mean IQs due to race and education level; sizeable differences for occupational groups;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Demography, Geographic Regions
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Juan-Espinosa, Manuel; Cuevas, Lara; Escorial, Sergio; Garcia, Luis F. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2006
The general ("g") factor is the most general and relevant cognitive ability. This factor is considered to be one of the most important predictors of academic achievement and of many other socially relevant behavioral outcomes. In the last decades, many researchers have investigated the possible changes in the relevance of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Ability, Performance Factors, Predictor Variables
Davis, Keith G.; Banning, James H. – 1968
In this study, prediction of success in programed learning for students of different personality types was only minimally successful because the dependent variables, which were test scores and final grades, correlated r = 0.52. Ninety-seven 10th and 11th grade mathematics students were individually given the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, Grade 10, Grade 11
KNOX, ALAN B.; SJOGREN, DOUGLAS D. – 1965
SOME EFFECTS OF AGE ON ADULT LEARNING WERE STUDIED IN A SERIES OF FOUR EXPERIMENTS ON THE FOLLOWING VARIABLES--(1) SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SET-INDUCING CONDITIONS, (2) ATTITUDES ABOUT A TOPIC, (3) PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, AND (4) LEARNING SPEED OR EFFECTS OF VARIED PRESENTATION RATES. A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF 211 SUBJECTS WAS SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF SEX,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Programs
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Prevatt, Frances; Proctor, Briley – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2003
Two hundred four (204) college students who had difficulties in both foreign language and math (FLD/MD), only math difficulties (MD), or only foreign language difficulties (FLD) were studied. Analysis of prevalence of presenting problems indicated that FLD and FLD/MD are relatively uncommon, compared to MD. Comparisons among the three groups…
Descriptors: College Students, Learning Problems, Phonology, Second Language Learning
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Biswas, Parthasarathy; Malhotra, Savita; Malhotra, Anil; Gupta, Nitin – Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2006
Background: Childhood onset schizophrenia (COS) is a rare disorder. Comparative data on the effect of differential age of onset on clinical profile in schizophrenia are very few. Method: Subjects with COS (n = 15), adolescence onset schizophrenia (AdOS, n = 20) and adulthood onset schizophrenia (AOS, n = 20) were compared on socio-demographic,…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Intelligence Quotient, Psychopathology, Children