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Macakova, Viviana; Wood, Clare – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
There is limited research regarding university students' academic achievement and what influences it. We argue that university students' academic achievement could be influenced by different factors to those observed for schoolchildren. We investigated whether university students' beliefs about intelligence ('implicit theories'), self-efficacy and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Psychological Needs, Need Gratification
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Buckley, Jeffrey; O'Connor, Adrian; Seery, Niall; Hyland, Tomás; Canty, Donal – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
The educational significance of eliciting students' implicit theories of intelligence is well established with the majority of this work focussing on theories regarding entity and incremental beliefs. However, a second paradigm exists in the prototypical nature of intelligence for which to view implicit theories. This study purports to instigate…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Intelligence, Technology Education, Student Attitudes
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Senkbeil, Martin – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
This study examined the incremental validity of different information and communication technologies (ICT)-related person characteristics over and above intelligence and and prior achievement when predicting ICT literacy across a period of three years. Relative weights analyses were performed to determine the relative contribution of each…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Information Technology, Validity, Individual Characteristics
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Klapp, Alli – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2018
The purpose of the study was to investigate if academic and social self-concept and motivation to improve in academic school subjects mediated the negative effect of summative assessment (grades) for low-ability students' achievement in compulsory school. In two previous studies, summative assessment (grading) was found to have a differentiating…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Self Concept, Longitudinal Studies, Quasiexperimental Design
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Gralewski, Jacek; Karwowski, Maciej – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2013
The aim of this study was to examine whether, and to what extent, teachers are able to recognize the creativity of their students. The study measured the creative abilities, creative attitude, creative activity, as well as intrinsic motivation, intelligence, and school functioning of 589 Polish high school students, while their teachers (N = 178)…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Creativity, Teacher Attitudes, Student Characteristics