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Direct linkAziz Shekh-Abed – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
Self-knowledge is an important element of metacognition. It encompasses understanding one's own strengths and weaknesses and includes belief and self-assessment of one's capacity to perform a task. Cognitive skills comprise a range of mental processes, such as attention, memory, problem solving, systems thinking, abstract thinking, and critical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 12, Metacognition
Peer reviewedTamir, Pinchas – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993
The performance of 254 Israeli twelfth graders on multiple-choice tests with positive or negative item stems was studied. For items requiring low cognitive reasoning, performance does not differ, but, for items requiring high cognitive reasoning, the negative mode is more difficult. Implications for test construction are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Admission (School), Biology, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Testing
Peer reviewedTamir, Pinchas – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1990
Survey data were analyzed from 14- and 17-year-old Israeli students--1,990 ninth graders and 2,000 twelfth graders, respectively--involved in the Second International Science Study. The effects of ethnic origin (Afro-Asian versus European/American) and gender on high school student achievement, interest/motivation, attitudes, and self-concept…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Comparative Testing, Ethnic Origins
