Academic mismatch, the incompatibility between applicants'/students' aptitude and their desired/current academic program, is considered a key predictor of degree attainment. Evaluations of this link tend to be cross-sectional, however, focusing on specific stages of the college pipeline and ignoring mismatch at prior or later stages and their…

The relationship between thinking and learning constitutes one of the fundamental problems of cognitive psychology. Though there is an obvious overlap between the domains of thinking and learning, it seems more productive to consider learning as being predominantly acquisition while considering thinking as the application of the existent concepts…

Assessing students' aptitude and educational performance and grading them on a hierarchical scale is a universal feature of the schooling process. In light of grades' instrumental, motivational, and symbolic saliency in students' school experience, it is not surprising they are highly "valued goods," and the process of their fair or…

The present research investigated the relations among the measured and the expressed career decision-making difficulties in a sample of 299 young adults who intended to apply to college or university. As hypothesised, the correlations between career decision-making difficulties, as measured by the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire…

A study examined the predictive validity of 3 commonly used nursing school admission criteria among 321 students in 6 representative Israeli nursing schools. Correlations among the three indices are reported, and implications for nursing school admissions in Israel are discussed. (Author/MSE)

Examination of 360 Israeli college student candidates demonstrates that upper-class candidates evidence higher levels of moral judgment than their lower-class counterparts. Moral judgment levels were also moderately correlated with total aptitude test scores and matriculation grades but were not differentiated by sex, ethnicity, or age.…

Examines educational change in Israeli junior high schools which was intended to integrate ethnic, social, and ability groups into a single national entity. Topics discussed include peer tutoring, busing, tutorial work given by gifted students to slow learners, and student motivation. Journal availability: see SO 507 297. (DB)

A report is given of a study which examined the effects of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in mathematics on 99 disadvantaged and 112 advantaged Israeli students. Higher performance levels and larger gains were found for advantaged over disadvantaged students, for high achievers over low achievers, and for boys over girls. (IAH)

A sample of 524 Israeli school children in grades 4 through 8 was used to investigate the relationships of game-playing with school achievement, family background, and several psychological characteristics. Game playing was found not to be directly related to school achievement when abilities and attitudes were controlled. However, the playing of…

In an Israeli community of low socioeconomic status, conventional ability measures and the Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD) were administered to 165 high-achieving intermediate grade students and their classmates. High-achieving students scored higher than classmates on both conventional and LPAD measures but scored higher than the norm…