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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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Mahasneh, Ahmad M.; Al-Zoubi, Zohair H.; Batayeneh, Omar T. – International Education Studies, 2013
This study aimed to examine the correlation between optimism-pessimism and personality traits (extraversion, introversion, emotional stability and neuroticism), also aimed to identify the prevalence of optimism and pessimism in the study sample according to the variable sex, academic specialization, level of study, and grade point average. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Positive Attitudes
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Kiany, G. Reza – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1998
This study sought to determine whether extroversion or introversion has anything to do with English-as-a-foreign-language learning and content-subject learning of Iranian non-English major postgraduates currently studying in the United Kingdom. Subjects were given the Persian form of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire twice and asked to report…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Extraversion Introversion, Foreign Countries