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Pae, Tae-Il – Language Testing, 2012
This study tracked gender differential item functioning (DIF) on the English subtest of the Korean College Scholastic Aptitude Test (KCSAT) over a nine-year period across three data points, using both the Mantel-Haenszel (MH) and item response theory likelihood ratio (IRT-LR) procedures. Further, the study identified two factors (i.e. reading…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Academic Aptitude, Language Tests, Test Items
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Elam, Matthew E.; Donham, Brent L.; Soloman, Stephanie R. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2012
A two-week summer program designed to promote interest and learning in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields is documented. The program included a week-long engineering emphasis. Students and teachers from ten rural and financially disadvantaged school districts participated in the program. Three middle school and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, STEM Education, Engineering, Disadvantaged Schools
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Jayalekshmi, N. B.; Raja, B. William Dharma – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2011
Of all the equalities man possesses, creative thinking has been the most important for his well being and advancement. Creativity means to make, to bring into being, to originate or to invent something. Scientific aptitude is considered to be a unique or unusual potential or ability of an individual to acquire general knowledge and skill in…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Gender Differences, School Location
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Chitty, Clyde – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2011
This article is based on a talk that was given by the author at the Institute of Historical Research on 3 February 2011, on the Victorian polymath Francis Galton and the malign legacy of his eugenic theories. It pays tribute to the pioneering work of the late Brian Simon in challenging the whole idea of "fixed innate intelligence" and in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Genetics, Selection, Racial Attitudes
Zhou, Qiaoying – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Academic achievement and student participation in physics are lower than desired. Research has shown that there is a shortage of college students entering science and technology fields such as physics. E-learning may provide the technology-oriented Net Generation learner an option for taking courses such as physics in a course modality with which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Physics, Academic Aptitude, Student Participation
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Jordan, Kelli R.; Bain, Sherry K.; McCallum, R. Steve; Mee Bell, Sherry – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2012
A total of 47 gifted and nongifted African American and Euro-American elementary students were rated by their teachers on a multidimensional instrument developed to minimize language considerations and to rely on local norms (Universal Multiple Abilities Scales [UMAS; McCallum & Bracken, 2012a]). Results from two factorial MANOVAs revealed no…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Comparative Analysis, Scoring, Discriminant Analysis
Cymber, Joyce – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2011
Many students lack problem-solving skills. As teenagers, they tend to blame external forces or other people when something goes wrong, instead of trying to understand the root cause to prevent it from happening again. This article discusses the Lean Six Sigma methodology for problem solving, which the Board of Cooperative Educational Services in…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Statistical Analysis, Quality Control, Measurement Techniques
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Kim, Minsung; Bednarz, Robert; Kim, Jaeyil – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2012
The National Research Council emphasizes using tools of representation as an essential element of spatial thinking. However, it is debatable at what age the use of spatial representation for spatial thinking skills should begin. This study investigated whether young Korean children possess the potential to understand map-like representation using…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries, Map Skills
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Schmitt, Neal – Educational Psychologist, 2012
In considering and evaluating approaches to the admission of college students, the usual approach is to try to measure past academic achievement and primarily verbal and math ability on the assumption that these abilities will predict subsequent college academic grades and achievement. These measures do predict classroom achievement, though far…
Descriptors: Intelligence, College Students, Grade Point Average, College Admission
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Coldron, John; Willis, Ben; Wolstenholme, Claire – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2009
This paper presents the findings from a study of the admission arrangements for all secondary schools in England. We sketch the history of selection, answer questions about the scale and extent of selection by attainment or aptitude including an account of partially selective schools, consider the similarity and differences between selection by…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, Selective Admission, Admission Criteria
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Karkkainen, Riitta; Raty, Hannu – Educational Studies, 2010
Parents (N = 97) and their child's class-teachers were instructed to rate the child's potential for improvement in mathematics and Finnish. The results showed that there was a moderate correlation between the parents' and teachers' ratings. The parents rated their child's potential more optimistically than the teachers did. Views of malleability…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Expectations of Students, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematical Aptitude
Fox, Kenneth F. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Researchers in the field of educational administration have given little attention to the role of the associate principal. The research reported in this dissertation sought to fill that void through a close examination of the roles of the associate principals on two campuses in two different school districts. In addition to illustrating the role…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Campuses, Advanced Placement, Standardized Tests
Kadhi, T.; Palasota, A.; Holley, D.; Rudley, D. – Online Submission, 2010
The following report gives the statistical findings of the 2009-2010 Watson-Glaser test. Data is pre-existing and was given to the Evaluator by email from the Director, Center for Legal Pedagogy. Statistical analyses were run using SPSS 17 to address the following questions: 1. What are the statistical descriptors of the Watson-Glaser results of…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Statistical Significance, Classification, Achievement Tests
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Ntalianis, Filotheos – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
The effects of personal characteristics (e.g. personality, aptitude, gender) on student performance, such as Grade Point Average (GPA) and course grades, have been systematically researched, with the emphasis being mainly on outcomes rather than the processes leading to them. The purpose of this paper is to shift the focus to students' perceived…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Learning Motivation, Personality Traits, Educational Environment
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Biasutti, Michele – Music Education Research, 2010
This paper reports a study investigating trainee teachers' beliefs about music abilities and learning. The study employed two questionnaires: the "Music abilities beliefs questionnaire" (MABQ) and the "Music learning beliefs questionnaire" (MLBQ) which were specially designed to reveal the beliefs of trainee teachers of primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education
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