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Tisha L. N. Emerson; KimMarie McGoldrick – Journal of Economic Education, 2024
Using data from 11 institutions, the authors investigate enrollments in intermediate microeconomics to determine characteristics of successful and unsuccessful students and follow the retake behavior of unsuccessful students. Successful students are significantly different from unsuccessful ones, and unsuccessful students differ by type…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Student Attrition, Withdrawal (Education), Academic Persistence
Teimouri, Yasser; Goetze, Julia; Plonsky, Luke – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Second language (L2) anxiety has been the object of constant empirical and theoretical attention for several decades. As a matter of both theoretical and practical interest, much of the research in this domain has examined the relationship between anxiety and L2 achievement. The present study meta-analyzes this body of research. Following a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Anxiety, Correlation
Li, Shaofeng – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
A meta-analysis was conducted to examine the construct validity of language aptitude by synthesizing the existing research that has been accumulated over the past five decades. The study aimed to provide a thorough understanding of the construct by aggregating the data reported in the primary research on its correlations with other individual…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Construct Validity, Language Skills, Correlation
Landis, Rebecca N.; Reschly, Amy L. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2013
The issue of high school dropout has long concerned policy makers, educational professionals, and the general public. In the gifted literature, this concern is no less pressing. Student engagement is becoming an increasingly discussed construct for conceptualizing the dropout phenomenon and designing appropriate interventions to prevent this…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Dropouts, Underachievement, Student Participation
Jenkins, Neil J. – 1992
The use of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) for predicting academic success has generated tremendous debate about fairness and bias. Despite discrepant observations and arguments, the need for a credible assessment formula remains strong. Although widely used by a large number of American colleges, the SAT and similar tests are not widely used…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations

Welsh, Mara; Parke, Ross D.; Widaman, Keith; O'Neil, Robin – Journal of School Psychology, 2001
Examines the relation between social and academic competence of school-age children (N=163) to determine the direction of influence between these two domains across time. Results supported a reciprocal model, indicating that academic achievement directly influenced social competence, and social competence was reciprocally related to academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Children, Elementary Secondary Education
Walters, Patrick T. – 1983
Variables that correlate with scores on the National Certifying Examination (NCE) for Physician's Assistants (PAs) were investigated. It is noted that NCE scores represent professional entry-level performance for PAs and that identification of variables related to PA performance may promote the development of standardized selection criteria. The…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Aptitude Tests, Certification, Grade Point Average

Fraser, Barry J.; And Others – International Journal of Educational Research, 1987
Research syntheses of individual bivariate studies of the effects of specific predictor variables on student outcomes are considered. Walberg's nine-factor model of educational productivity is used to organize the syntheses and to identify aptitudinal, instructional, and environmental variables linked with student achievement and learning. (TJH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Educational Research, Learning Processes

Spinks, J. A.; Ho, D. Y. F. – Higher Education, 1984
Recent research concerning prediction of academic performance of Chinese students at the English-language, Western-oriented University of Hong Kong is reviewed, and five-year longitudinal data are discussed. It is concluded that English language and mathematics ability are good predictors, and cultural background should be considered in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Admission Criteria, College Admission

Sheehan, Janet K.; Han, Tianqi – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 1996
Contrasts aptitude by treatment interaction (ATI) and hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) methods for making cross-level inferences between individual-level and group-level factors in school effectiveness research. Recommends HLM when intraclass correlations are high. ATI is suitable when intraclass correlations are low, but partitioning the…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Causal Models, Context Effect, Educational Research

Webb, Rose Mary; Lubinski, David; Benbow, Camilla Persson – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2002
Tracks 1,110 adolescents identified as mathematically precocious with plans for a math-science undergraduate major. Participants' high school educational experiences, abilities, and interests predicted whether their attained undergraduate degrees were within math-science or nonmath-nonscience areas. More women than men eventually completed…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Adolescents, Career Development, Educational Experience

Mukunda, Kamala V.; Hall, Vernon C. – Intelligence, 1992
Meta-analysis of 225 hypothesis tests of measures of memory for order (MFO) and the relationship of MFO and measures of general ability demonstrate a significant relationship between MFO and standardized test scores. Fifty-one independent samples were tested. MFO task quality was a significant predictor of effect size. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Aptitude Tests

Gettinger, Maribeth – Journal of Educational Research, 1983
A study examined the effects of two factors--learner ability and modifications of instruction through increased feedback and reduced size of instructional units--on the time required for learning and the retention of fourth-grade male students. While instructional modifications best predicted the time needed for learning, learner ability best…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Elementary Education, Feedback

Perry, Floyd, Jr.; Nelson, Gwen – College Student Journal, 1981
Describes efforts of the California State University and Colleges system to develop an affirmative action plan for each campus. Reviews past research on issues related to typical and nontypical students and addresses the functions that student affirmative action plans should include. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Affirmative Action, College Admission, College Students

Sternberg, Robert J.; Grigorenko, Elena L.; Bundy, Donald A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2001
Reviews findings on the predictive validity of psychometric tests of intelligence. Concludes that conventional tests of intelligence can be useful but only if they are interpreted very carefully, taking into account the factors that can affect them, and in conjunction with other measures. (Author)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Children, Cognitive Ability, Early Childhood Education
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