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Download full textZelazo, Philip David; Blair, Clancy B.; Willoughby, Michael T. – National Center for Education Research, 2016
Executive function (EF) skills are the attention-regulation skills that make it possible to sustain attention, keep goals and information in mind, refrain from responding immediately, resist distraction, tolerate frustration, consider the consequences of different behaviors, reflect on past experiences, and plan for the future. As EF research…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Attention Control, Educational Research, Learning Processes
Direct linkHartig, Johannes; Holzel, Britta; Moosbrugger, Helfried – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2007
Numerous studies have shown increasing item reliabilities as an effect of the item position in personality scales. Traditionally, these context effects are analyzed based on item-total correlations. This approach neglects that trends in item reliabilities can be caused either by an increase in true score variance or by a decrease in error…
Descriptors: True Scores, Error of Measurement, Structural Equation Models, Simulation
Peer reviewedHappe, Francesca G. E. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1994
Testing with a battery of naturalistic stories found that the 24 subjects with autism were impaired (compared to normal and mentally disabled controls) at providing context-appropriate mental state explanations for the story characters' nonliteral utterances. Even those autistic subjects who performed well on standard Theory of Mind tasks showed…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Processes, Empathy, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedAshkanasy, Neal M. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1991
Presents a study extending a model of leadership response based on attribution theories to include measures of locus of control and situational control. Describes a procedure by which subjects responded to descriptions of subordinate performance. Concludes that supervisors with an external locus of control were less sensitive to subordinate…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Zeitlin, Shirley; Williamson, G. Gordon – 1994
This book describes an intervention framework to help young children (birth to 36 months) who have or are at risk of having a disability, to cope more effectively. The book is written for an interdisciplinary audience including service providers, administrators, researchers, and policymakers. Emphasis is on enhancing the adaptive behavior and…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), At Risk Persons, Coping, Demonstration Programs
Peer reviewedCarducci, Bernardo J. – Teaching of Psychology, 1996
Describes an in-class exercise designed to teach basic principles of survey methodology and to educate students about the pervasiveness and problems associated with shyness in college students. Students complete a brief survey on shyness and the instructor summarizes the results for the class as part of a lecture on survey methodology. (MJP)
Descriptors: Communication Apprehension, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Communication
DeStefano, Lizanne; And Others – 1987
The research study sought to determine the status of student assessment instrumentation and practices in programs dealing with the transition of special education students from school to work or postsecondary education, and to determine areas where current practice was not able to meet the changing demands of transitional services. Transition…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adjustment (to Environment), Aptitude Tests, Career Choice
