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Direct linkGal Harpaz; Tal Vaizman; Yosi Yaffe – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
The connection between grit and achievement in a variety of areas is well documented. Nevertheless, the factors that affect domain-specific academic grit and the relationship of these factors to academic achievement still require clarification. The present study aimed to explore the contribution of three main categories of variables: subjective…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Achievement, Persistence, Resilience (Psychology)
Zhang, Li-fang – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This study explores how psychosocial development and personality traits are related. In particular, the study investigates the predictive power of the successful resolution of the Eriksonian psychosocial crises for the Big Five personality traits beyond age and gender. Four hundred university students in mainland China responded to the Measures of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Individual Development, Foreign Countries, Personality
Download full textBelcheir, Marcia J. – 2001
This study is a followup to a study that reported on the results of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) for Boise State University freshmen and seniors. This study examined which of the many activities on the NSSE best predicted personal estimates of growth while at Boise State as well as perceived satisfaction with the university.…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Individual Development, Prediction
Litwin, James L.; And Others – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1975
As the result of a time-shortened degree experiment, 31 end-of-year freshmen were accelerated to junior status. The students showed high academic performance and few social problems, but questions of personal identity remained problematic. The best single predictor of academic success in the junior year was the freshman grade point average.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration, College Students, Flexible Progression
Peer reviewedMoore, Colleen F.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Examined the development of proportional reasoning by means of a temperature mixture task. Results show the importance of distinguishing between intuitive knowledge and formal computational knowledge of proportional concepts. Provides a new perspective on the relation of intuitive and computational knowledge during development. (GLR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, College Students, Computation
Brooks, Phillips V. – 1980
An interdisciplinary futures program was established as part of the core curriculum at Davis and Elkins College to prepare students for the variety of personal and social changes they are likely to experience during their lifetimes. Courses in the program are taught sequentially during each of the undergraduate years. At the freshmen, sophomore,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Students, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Design
