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Silva, Macarena; Cain, Kate – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
This study of 4- to 6-year-olds had 2 aims: first, to determine how lower level comprehension skills (receptive vocabulary and grammar) and verbal memory support early higher level comprehension skills (inference and literal story comprehension), and second, to establish the predictive power of these skills on subsequent reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Receptive Language, Vocabulary, Grammar
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Cornell, Dewey; Gregory, Anne; Huang, Francis; Fan, Xitao – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
This prospective study of 276 Virginia public high schools found that the prevalence of teasing and bullying (PTB) as perceived by both 9th-grade students and teachers was predictive of dropout rates for this cohort 4 years later. Negative binomial regression indicated that one standard deviation increases in student- and teacher-reported PTB were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropouts, Bullying, Crime
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Nord, Walter R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Business
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Perry, Joseph D.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1979
Multiple regression analyses were conducted using kindergarten intellectual, academic, and social variables to predict third-grade classroom behavior and achievement. Results indicate that kindergarten social and academic competencies were optimal predictors of later achievement-related behaviors and achievement. A social competence measure of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Behavior, Intelligence, Longitudinal Studies
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Rothstein, Mitchell G.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1994
A cross-validation study is reported in which personality and cognitive ability variables were evaluated as predictors of 2 separate performance criteria for 450 Master of Business Administration students. Personality variables are found to be related to academic success when characteristic modes of behavior play a role in academic performance.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Business Administration, Cognitive Ability
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Maki, Ruth H.; Serra, Matt – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
The role of practice tests in predictions about test performance on texts was investigated in 3 experiments with a total of 180 college students. Taking a similar practice test did not help students predict their test performance. Practice tests may help students learn information. (SLD)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Students, Feedback, Higher Education
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Chen, Chuansheng; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1996
Ten years after initial participation by 729 American, Chinese, and Japanese first graders and their mothers, interviews and achievement tests completed by 475 students from this sample found high stability of achievement relationships among all three societies. Associations between early predictors and achievement were similar for all groups.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Cultural Differences