The central goal of this study is to clarify to what degree former education and students' personal characteristics (the "Big Five personality characteristics", personal orientations on learning and students' study approach) may predict study outcome (required credits and study continuance). Analysis of the data gathered through questionnaires of…

This research work presents a Bayesian Performance Prediction Model that was created in order to determine the strength of personality traits in predicting the level of mathematics performance of high school students in Addis Ababa. It is an automated tool that can be used to collect information from students for the purpose of effective group…

To forecast four-year, two-year, and single-course grades in college, a California Psychological Inventory equation was developed. Cross-validational coefficients for scores on the equation were .38 for 326 males and .36 for 570 females. (Author/GDC)

Selected intellectual, personality, and biographical variables were used in a multiple-correlation study to predict success in an independent study course and in a traditionally organized lecture-laboratory course in college biological science. The sample consisted of 630 Purdue underclassmen. Scores on the Guilford-Zimmerman temperament survey,…

This document supplements ED 025 264, a study of 2,459 individuals enrolled in one of 43 occupation-centered curricula in 20 California junior colleges. The parent study compared students' questionnaire responses about home and educational backgrounds, and about attitudes presumably related to both vocational choice and choice of curricula leading…

Three studies of prediction of academic achievement in introductory psychology courses are reported. The Achiever Personality scale of Fricke's Opinion, Attitude and Interest Survey and Brown and Holtzman's Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes made independent contributions beyond intelligence in the prediction of course grades in two of these…

Proposed a method of predicting the mean rating of the cooperating teacher and college supervisor of student teachers on the Teacher Observation Rating Scale. Direct observation and operationally defined personality measures predicted student teacher performance more accurately than the prediction of academic performance in education. (Author/JAC)

This study seeks to either verify or refute the hypothesis that a positive relationship exists between self-concept and underachievement. (Author)

THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERING TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS AND OF VARIOUS STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS UPON LEARNING IN COLLEGE WERE MEASURED BY AN INSTRUMENT CALLED THE "CRITERIA TEST," WHICH CONTAINED SUBTESTS FOR MEASURING SEVERAL LEVELS OF COGNITIVE COURSE OUTCOMES AS FUNCTIONS OF INTERACTIONS AMONG METHODS OF TEACHING, TEACHER PERSONALITY, AND…

This paper tested the hypothesis that certain cognitive, affective, and psychomotor variables were significant predictors of college persistence in the first few weeks of the freshman year. Data for the study involved 462 freshmen, with an average age of 18, who matriculated in the fall of 1997 at a public higher education institution; about 93…