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Hübner, Nicolas; Spengler, Marion; Nagengast, Benjamin; Borghans, Lex; Schils, Trudie; Trautwein, Ulrich – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Students' academic achievement is a key predictor of various life outcomes and is commonly used for selection as well as for educational monitoring and accountability. With regard to achievement indicators, a differentiation has traditionally been drawn between grades and standardized tests. There is initial, albeit inconclusive, evidence that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Personality Traits, Achievement Tests, Personality Theories
Akpur, Ugur – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this study is to find out the predictive degree of university students' levels of need for cognition and metacognition on their academic achievement. A total of 253 university students formed the study group. To collect the data of the study, "The Metacognition Awareness Inventory" (MAI) and "The Need for Cognition…
Descriptors: College Students, Metacognition, Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes
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Köseoglu, Yaman – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Personality traits and learning styles play defining roles in shaping academic achievement. 202 university students completed the Big Five personality traits questionnaire and the Inventory of Learning Processes Scale and self-reported their grade point averages. Conscientiousness and agreeableness, two of the Big Five personality traits, related…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Grade Point Average
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Martin Sanz, Noemy; Rodrigo, Inés G.; Izquierdo García, Cristina; Ajenjo Pastrana, Patricia – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Academic performance has always been associated to the evaluation tests results, which are those corresponding to student's IQ, and leaving aside other personal characteristics. Among such characteristics, the importance of emotional intelligence is worth highlighting (management, facilitation, understanding and perception), dimensions associated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Psychology, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Golle, Jessika; Zettler, Ingo; Rose, Norman; Trautwein, Ulrich; Hasselhorn, Marcus; Nagengast, Benjamin – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2018
Enrichment programs provide learning opportunities for a broader or deeper examination of curricular or extracurricular topics and are popular in gifted education. Herein, we investigated the effectiveness of a statewide extracurricular enrichment program for gifted elementary school children in Germany. The program implemented a "grass…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Enrichment Activities, Academically Gifted, Elementary School Students
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Ding, Yi; Laux, John; Salyers, Kathleen; Kozelka, Susan – School Psychology Forum, 2017
General personality was assessed of 104 graduate students in school counseling, mental health counseling, and school psychology programs in the United States using the Big Five model of personality domains. The students in three programs reported similarities and differences in their preference and performance in domain knowledge, with more…
Descriptors: Personality, Graduate Students, Academic Achievement, Counselor Training
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Zupancic, Maja; Kavcic, Tina; Slobodskaya, Helena R.; Akhmetova, Olga A. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2016
Incremental predictive value of 5 broad and 13 narrow personality traits for academic achievement over and beyond age, gender, parental education, and country was examined in Russian and Slovene 8- to 15-year-olds. Personality data were collected from mothers (Russia: N = 994, Slovenia: N = 624) and adolescents (Russia: N = 481, Slovenia: N = 310)…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Compulsory Education
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Kirkagac, Senay; Öz, Hüseyin – Online Submission, 2017
This study sought to find out the possible relationships between personality traits and academic achievement of prospective English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. A total of 200 university students from a major state university voluntarily participated in the study. Data were collected through the International Personality Item Tool (IPIP)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grade Point Average
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Mofield, Emily; Parker Peters, Megan; Chakraborti-Ghosh, Sumita – Education Sciences, 2016
Perfectionism can influence how one approaches challenges and deals with setbacks, and, consequently, can inhibit or facilitate achievement. The present study (1) explored the relationship between Frost's six dimensions of perfectionism and five types of coping strategies; (2) examined how dimensions of perfectionism predict coping in response to…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Coping, Underachievement, Gifted
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Muenks, Katherine; Wigfield, Allan; Yang, Ji Seung; O'Neal, Colleen R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, and Kelly (2007) defined "grit" as one's passion and perseverance toward long-term goals. They proposed that it consists of 2 components: consistency of interests and perseverance of effort. In a high school and college student sample, we used a multidimensional item response theory approach to examine (a)…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Students, Metacognition, Item Response Theory
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Barakat, Asia; Othman, Afaf – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The present study aims to identify the relationship between the five-factor model of personality and its relationship to cognitive style (rush and prudence) and academic achievement among a sample of students. The study is based on descriptive approach for studying the relationship between the variables of the study, results and analysis. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Style, Academic Achievement, Correlation
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Smidt, Wilfried – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2015
Academic success in early childhood teacher education is important because it provides a foundation for occupational development in terms of professional competence, the quality of educational practices, as well as career success. Consequently, identifying factors that can explain differences in academic success is an important research task.…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Success
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Mascareño, Mayra; Doolaard, Simone; Bosker, Roel J. – Early Education and Development, 2014
A successful transition from kindergarten to 1st grade requires a positive combination of multiple dimensions of child competence. Using latent class analysis, we simultaneously examined the academic skills, work attitude, and social/behavioral competence of a large sample of Dutch kindergarten children to identify profiles of kindergarten…
Descriptors: Child Development, Kindergarten, Profiles, Prediction
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Vock, Miriam; Koller, Olaf; Nagy, Gabriel – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: Vocational interests play a central role in the vocational decision-making process and are decisive for the later job satisfaction and vocational success. Based on Ackerman's (1996) notion of "trait complexes," specific interest profiles of gifted high-school graduates can be expected. Aims: Vocational interests of gifted and…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Gifted, Profiles, High School Graduates
Saltonstall, Margot – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study seeks to advance and expand research on college student success. Using multinomial logistic regression analysis, the study investigates the contribution of psychosocial variables above and beyond traditional achievement and demographic measures to predicting first-semester college grade point average (GPA). It also investigates if…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Demography
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