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Reconsidering the Use of the Mindset Assessment Profile in Educational Contexts
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Burgoyne, Alexander P.; Macnamara, Brooke N. – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
The Mindset Assessment Profile is a popular questionnaire purportedly designed to measure mindset--an individual's belief in whether intelligence is malleable or stable. Despite its widespread use, the questionnaire appears to assess an individual's need for cognition and goal orientation more than mindset. We assessed the reliability, construct…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Questionnaires, Cognitive Tests, Intelligence
The Structure of Self-Serving Cognitive Distortions: A Validation of the "How I Think" Questionnaire in a Sample of Italian Adolescents
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Bacchini, Dario; De Angelis, Grazia; Affuso, Gaetana; Brugman, Daniel – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2016
This study aims to investigate the structure of self-serving cognitive distortions (CD), evaluating the psychometric properties of the How I Think Questionnaire in a sample of Italian adolescents. A confirmatory factor analysis supported the distinction between four categories of CD and the use of a single second-order dimension of CD. Reliability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Questionnaires, Test Validity
Exploring Reading Comprehension Skill Relationships through the G-DINA Model
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Chen, Huilin; Chen, Jinsong – Educational Psychology, 2016
By analysing the test data of 1029 British secondary school students' performance on 20 Programme for International Student Assessment English reading items through the generalised deterministic input, noisy "and" gate (G-DINA) model, the study conducted two investigations on exploring the relationships among the five reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Models, Foreign Countries
Animism Begins at Forty: Evidence that Animism and Other Naive Beliefs Are Established before the Onset of Old Age
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Parry, Robert; Stuart-Hamilton, Ian – Educational Gerontology, 2010
Animism (erroneously believing inanimate objects are alive) is present in older adults (McDonald & Stuart-Hamilton, 2000). However, it is unclear if animism arises in later life or middle age. The current study tested 34 middle-aged adults (mean age 48 years) on Piaget's animism task and found a significant level of animism. Strength of…
Descriptors: Adults, Multiple Regression Analysis, Educational Gerontology, Beliefs
The Concept Shifting Test: Adult Normative Data
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Van der Elst, Wim; Van Boxtel, Martin P. J.; Van Breukelen, Gerard J. P.; Jolles, Jelle – Psychological Assessment, 2006
The Concept Shifting Test (CST) is a newly developed Trail Making Type test that measures concept shifting and executive functioning. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether CST performance was affected by age, gender, educational level, or handedness and to establish the normal range of test performance. The CST was…
Descriptors: Handedness, Norms, Program Validation, Adults
Unorganized Cognitive Structures of Illiterate as the Key Factor in Rural E-Learning Design
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Katre, Dinesh S. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
Cognitive Structures and Linguistic Sequential Memory or Memory of Serial Order are not very well developed among illiterate people contrary to educated people. It affects the comprehension of abstract ideas and the usability of the system. Therefore the cognitive limitations of illiterate must be considered for instructional design and user…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Illiteracy, Rural Education, Electronic Learning