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Individual Skill Predictors of the School- and Career-Related Adjustment of Adolescents with Disabilities
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Pinkney, Christopher J.; Murray, Christopher J.; Lind, John R. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2012
In this investigation, the authors examine the relationship between individual skills (i.e., career locus of control [LOC], social skills [SOC], and social problem-solving skills [SPSS]) and the school- and perceived career-related adjustment of 211 students with disabilities. Data pertaining to individual skills were gathered from student…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Employment Qualifications, Interpersonal Competence, Disabilities
Models of Pre-Service Teachers' Academic Achievement: The Influence of Cognitive Motivational Variables
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Castro-Villarreal, Felicia; Guerra, Norma; Sass, Daniel; Hseih, Pei-Hsuan – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
Theoretical models were tested using structural equation modeling to evaluate the interrelations among cognitive motivational variables and academic achievement using a sample of 128 predominately Hispanic pre-service teachers enrolled in two undergraduate educational psychology classes. Data were gathered using: (1) a quantitative questionnaire…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Student Motivation, Cognitive Processes
Cognitive Appraisal of Problem Solving Effectiveness: Relation to Depression and Depressive Symptoms.
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Nezu, Arthur M. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1986
Describes two studies that assessed the strength of the relationship between the appraisal of one's problem solving effectiveness and depressive symptomatology among college undergraduates. Results indicated that all three problem-solving dimensions were significant predictors of depressive symptoms. The depressed group appraised their…
Descriptors: College Students, Depression (Psychology), Higher Education, Locus of Control
Predicting Ego-Strength from Problem-Solving Ability of College Students.
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Ittenbach, Richard F.; Harrison, Patti L. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1990
Examined whether performance on scales reflecting problem-solving dimensions of personality could predict ego-strength in college students (n=348). Findings did not support statistically significant relationship between all problem-solving scales and ego-strength. Individually, evidence supported hypothesis that ego-strength can be predicted from…
Descriptors: Ability, College Students, Competence, Higher Education
Cognitive Skills Needed in Computer Programming.
Nowaczyk, Ronald H. – 1983
Research directed toward a better understanding of the computer user/computer machine relationship has increased in recent years. To identify what factors may predict success in computer programming, 286 college students from three computer classes (160 from introductory programming; 60 from Cobol programming; and 66 from senior level programming)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Computer Anxiety, Computer Science
Computer Experience, Self-Concept and Problem-Solving: The Effects of LOGO on Children's Ideas of Themselves as Learners.
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Burns, Barbara; Hagerman, Alison – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1989
Discussion of achievement motivation and children's ideas about themselves as learners focuses on a study of third graders that examined the effects of LOGO programing on performance. Incremental and entity theories of intelligence are explained, and treatment of the experimental group and the control group are described. (26 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction