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Junxian Shen; Hongfeng Zhang; Jiansong Zheng – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Online learning is becoming more and more common, so how to maintain learners' online learning engagement is very important. This study aims to explore the impact of future self-continuity on college students' online learning engagement and its underlying mechanism of action. We utilized the Future Self-Continuity Questionnaire, the Learning…
Descriptors: College Students, Learner Engagement, Electronic Learning, Predictor Variables
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Cece, Valérian; Guillet-Descas, Emma; Lentillon-Kaestner, Vanessa – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
This study aimed to explore the longitudinal trajectories of teacher burnout and vigour across the school year and whether teacher emotional intelligence (EI) at the beginning of the school year would predict membership in the trajectories. A sample of 311 school teachers (M[subscript age] = 42.40 years ± 9.64 years, aged: 24-61) reported their…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Predictor Variables, Emotional Intelligence, Teacher Motivation
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Nursalim, Mochamad; Saroinsong, Wulan P.; Boonroungrut, Chinun; Wagino; Costa, Augusto da – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The global health emergency, COVID-19, significantly influenced schooling in Indonesia. Students employed a variety of coping mechanisms to cope with unusual stress levels during confinement time. Hence, as students' COVID-19 resilience, investigation, and prevention were required for high and chronic stress connected with various disorders. This…
Descriptors: Prediction, COVID-19, Pandemics, Resilience (Psychology)
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Feldman, Melanie; Hamsho, Narmene; Blacher, Jan; Carter, Alice S.; Eisenhower, Abbey – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
Autistic students often experience peer relationship difficulties. As peer acceptance and rejection may be malleable over time, we examined predictors of change in peer acceptance and peer rejection among early elementary-age autistic students. We followed 166 autistic children (mean age: 6.1 years [range: 4-8], 82.5% boys, grades preK-2nd)…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Rejection (Psychology), Autism Spectrum Disorders, Behavior Problems
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Poulou, Maria S.; Garner, Pamela W.; Bassett, Hideko Hamada – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
Using data from 832 kindergarten and first grade primary teachers and 662 of their students, the current study investigated teachers' use of behavioral and instructional classroom practices and whether these strategies moderated associations between teachers' expressions of positive and negative classroom emotion and students' social-emotional and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Techniques, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Perfect, Michelle M.; Levine-Donnerstein, Deborah; Archbold, Kristen; Goodwin, James L.; Quan, Stuart F. – Psychology in the Schools, 2014
The current study examined the concurrent and longitudinal relations among sleep problems with academic and psychosocial functioning in a prospective cohort study, the Tucson Children's Assessment of Sleep Apnea study (TuCASA). Children were assessed between the ages of 6 and 11 years and again approximately 5 years later. Sleep disordered…
Descriptors: Sleep, Academic Achievement, Psychological Patterns, Children
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Lustbert, Richard S.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1990
Attempted to develop a quantitative model using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) that could be used to predict those students most likely to be successful in gifted education programs. Study used two phases using two groups of elementary school students (N=161). Used subtests to predict program performance of gifted…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Gifted, Intelligence Tests
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Brooks, Clarence Rae – Psychology in the Schools, 1979
Children referred for psychological evaluation had been administered the Rorschach test and the WISC-R, among other tests, for diagnostic purposes. Significant relationships were found between groups for some variables after which prediction formulas were developed for estimates and use of verbal terminology associated with IQ levels. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Diagnostic Tests, Intelligence Tests
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Levinson, Philip J.; Carpenter, Robert L. – Psychology in the Schools, 1975
Certain subtests of the WISC, ITPA, and Stanford-Binet are used as measures of analogical reasoning. Because several facts suggested that the form of analogy used on these subtests does not require subjects to engage in true analogical reasoning, the validity of these subtests as measures of analogical reasoning was investigated. (Author)
Descriptors: Evaluation, Intelligence Tests, Item Analysis, Measurement Techniques
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Evans, Larry D. – Psychology in the Schools, 2001
Examined students in foster care for the relationship between learning and extrascholastic environments. Obtained achievement and intelligence scores for children (N=3,483) during the first months of foster care placement. Results showed average to low-average mean achievement and IQ, with academic deficits in basic skill areas. Results support…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Environmental Influences, Foster Care, Foster Children
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Evans, Paul L.; Richmond, Bert O. – Psychology in the Schools, 1976
This paper compares the 1972 Norms Edition of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Form LM, and the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children, Revised (1974) from a practitioner's viewpoint. The instruments are compared in relation to (a) standardization data given in the manuals, (b) ease of administration and interpretation, (c) age-range…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Hale, Robert L. – Psychology in the Schools, 1978
Study investigated efficacy of predicting academic achievement as measured by the WRAT, using Verbal and Performance scores of WISC-R as predictors. Both tests were given to 155 children referred for psychological evaluations. Performance IQ did not significantly predict academic achievement, and Verbal IQ significantly predicted only Reading and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Arithmetic, Children
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Houtz, John C.; Shaning, Dennis J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1982
Predicted divergent thinking and problem-solving performance of elementary school students from teachers' ratings of students' affective/behavioral characteristics, and from intelligence test scores. Found teachers' ratings of sensitivity to beauty, risk taking, awareness of impulses, and humor were the most frequent significant predictors in…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Divergent Thinking, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Fuller, Gerald B.; Goh, David S. – Psychology in the Schools, 1981
Investigated the test performance of learning disabled and emotionally impaired children to aid in identification and differentiation of the two groups. A cut off score on the WISC-R, WRAT, and MPD was established that significantly separated the groups. The best predictors of achievement varied for the two groups. (JAC)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Grossman, Fred M.; Galvin, Gloria A. – Psychology in the Schools, 1987
Evaluated the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) as a tool for understanding children's learning problems. Analyzed the predictive utility of several WISC-R subtest recategorizations with regard to academic achievement for 105 children referred for psychoeducational evaluation because of classroom learning problems. Stepwise…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary School Students