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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Cognitive variables"”.
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Using latent semantic analysis to detect non-cognitive variables of academic performance
… to detect evidence of intrapersonal personality variables in post-secondary student essays. Determining student achievement based on non-cognitive variables is a complex process. Automated essay scoring tools are already in use today in grading and evaluating student texts based on cognitive …
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The relation of socioeconomic and cognitive variables to dropout from a Salvation Army Drug Rehabilitation program
… the Novaco Provocation Inventory (NPI) and the Cognitive Triad Inventory (CTI). A stepwise hierarchical analysis for each treatment was used to test the hypothesis asserts that the addition of cognitive factors would improve the prediction rate of dropout using demographic variables alone. …
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Analyzing the Effects of Display Characteristics and Cognitive Variables on Performance Using Keystroke and Eye Movement Data
… of software interfaces and understanding the cognitive processes that underlie operator behavior. Other research evaluating information displays evolved from using reaction time and subjective data as dependent variables to using oculometric measures. In the current research conventional …
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The relationship between challenging behaviour, burnout and cognitive variables in staff working with people who have intellectual disabilities
… and it is possible that a number of different variables mediate this relationship. The aim of the study is to confirm whether there is a relationship between challenging behaviour and staff burnout, and in addition, to test whether staff perceptions about challenging behaviour mediate this …
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Predicting the Academic Success of Female Engineering Students During the First Year of College Using the SAT and Non-Cognitive Variables
… this study was to determine the value of the Non Cognitive Questionnaire (NCQ) and the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) in predicting the academic achievement of first year female engineering students. Ancis and Sedlacek (1997) studied non-cognitive variables with a general population of …
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A Study of Certain Non-Cognitive Variables as They Relate to Attrition Within the James Scholar Honors Program at the University of Illinois
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INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL COGNITIVE VARIABLES ON THE CAREER EXPLORATORY BEHAVIORS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN UNDERGRADUATE STEM-INTENSIVE AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES MAJORS AT HISTORICALLY BLACK LAND-GRANT INSTITUTIONS
… workforce. This study extends the use of Social Cognitive Career Theory by exploring how person, contextual and cognitive factors interplay to influence the career goals and career exploratory behaviors of African American college students pursuing STEM-intensive agricultural sciences majors. …
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The relationship of problem solving skill, self-appraised problem solving ability and coping style to adjustment: a longitudinal analysis
… equations, the direct relationships of the cognitive variables to the measures of adjustment were tested. In addition, interactive effects of the cognitive variables with stress, as predicted by the diathesis-stress hypothesis, originally forwarded by Schotte & Clum (1982) were also …
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An evaluation of social-cognitive factors in dietary restraint, smoking, and weight control smoking
… of this study was to evaluate the role of social-cognitive variables in restrained eating, smoking, and weight control smoking. Overall, the results indicated Significant main effects of dietary restraint and smoking on dieting- and smoking-related social-cognitive variables. In addition, there …
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Gender differences in worry and associated cognitive-behavioural variables
… phenomenon by looking at gender differences in cognitive variables associated with excessive worry. Intolerance of uncertainty, negative problem orientation, positive beliefs about worry, and cognitive avoidance have been linked with the generation and maintenance of worry (Dugas et al., 1998). …
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Predictability of everyday task performance by perceived health, self-efficacy and cognitive ability
… functional domain often involves several of the cognitive skills typically assessed by a neuropsychological instrument. Whilst there is an extensive literature linking neuropyschological tests to everyday functioning in cognitively impaired older adults, little research has been directed at …
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Predictors of PTSD symptoms for criterion A and non-criterion A events
… It examined predictors (i.e., event, person, and cognitive characteristics) and the factor structure of PTSD symptoms for events that do and do not meet criterion A. Event, person, and cognitive variables included in this study explained 47% of the variance in PTSD symptoms for the criterion A …
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Social Cognitive Factors Associated With Verbal Bullying And Defending
… and verbal bullying and the role of social cognitive variables, including empathy, values, moral disengagement, and efficacy among middle school students. Middle school students (n=282) in grades 6 through 8 in an urban public school district in Michigan participated in the study. Data were …
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Variables Associated With Academic Achievement of African-American Males in Four-Year Undergraduate Educational Institutions: a Synthesis of Studies
… males. The second purpose was to identify variables associated with achievement of African-American males. In this review of 13 studies, 48 variables associated with academic achievement of undergraduate, African-American males were identified. These variables were placed into three …
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Examining the relationship among context, cognition, and conflict management in the workplace
… examine the extent to which specific contextual variables of a workplace conflict would influence participant responses in that interaction. During the study, 389 individuals responded to an online questionnaire containing a description of a hypothetical workplace conflict interaction with one …
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USING A RISK PREDICTION MODEL WITH FIRST-YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS: EARLY INTERVENTION TO SUPPORT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
… multiple regression with historical data (both cognitive and non-cognitive variables) from a prior cohort of freshmen. The equation was applied to a new cohort of freshmen, who were assigned levels of academic risk. An advising-based intervention was utilized with the most academically at-risk …
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Relationship of Select Admissions Criteria to Pre-Licensure Requirements in a Graduate Degree Program in Occupational Therapy
… the admission process and the admission variables used to select candidates for admission. Healthcare professions such as occupational therapy must reliably select those applicants who can succeed in the academic classroom and in the clinical setting by providing competent compassionate …
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Lecture Note-taking in Postsecondary Students with Self-Reported Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
… Yet few studies have focused on the underlying cognitive variables related to lecture note-taking. The current study is an extension of previous studies on lecture note-taking (Peverly & Garner, 2010; Peverly et al., 2007; Peverly et al., 2010) to a disability population, specifically students …
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A Prospective Investigation of Social-Cognitive Predictors of Physical Activity: Development of a Causal Model
… a model of the relationship between social-cognitive variables and physical activity in a sample of 277 university students using a prospective design. Results of structural equation modeling indicated a good fit of the social-cognitive model to the data. Self-efficacy had the greatest …
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