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Adams, Curt M.; Palmer, Anna H. – Teachers College Record, 2017
Background: Education has much in common with professions that are using positive psychology and positive organizational scholarship to transform practice, yet the science behind peak human and group functioning has been slow to displace deficit-based framing of reform policies and improvement strategies in education. Purpose of the Study: This…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Individual Differences, Self Determination, Learning Theories
Szabo, Michael; Feldhusen, John F. – 1970
This study was made to assess the relative effects of individual learner characteristics on the prediction of academic success in a traditional course and an independent study course in science, and to predict achievement for individual students. Variables from personality and intellective areas were employed in conjunction with biographical data.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Science, College Students, Independent Study
Crist-Whitzel, Janet L.; Hawley-Winne, Barbara J. – 1976
Relationships between cognitive and affective learner characteristics or "aptitudes" and mathematics achievement for sixth-graders in three instructional treatments in one school district were examined. Aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) analyses were performed to test for differential prediction of achievement outcomes among treatments, using…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction