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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Non-cognitive skills"”.
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Relationship Between Non-Cognitive Skills And GPA In A Rural Maine Community College
… century has altered the workscape, emphasizing non-cognitive skills required for success in the workforce. Community colleges that profess workforce readiness in their workreadiness programs use primarily cognitive assessment to ensure content and curricular learning. This quantitative study of …
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Examining the Impact of a Coaching Training Program on Coaches' Non-Cognitive Skills
… Coaching program may have on coaches' non-cognitive skills. Non-cognitive skills are the fundamental characteristics predictive of behavior development and life-long achievement. Considered one of the most influential roles' in young peoples' lives, the focus on coaching has become more …
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What we learn in school: Cognitive and non-cognitive skills in the educational production function
… to model how achievement and socio-emotional skills enter the relationship and how they are affected during the schooling period. The proposed analyses use a combination of estimation methodologies (longitudinal, multilevel and simultaneous equations models) to empirically assess the …
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Examining the Relationship between Non-cognitive Skills and Leadership: The Influence of Hope and Grit on Transformational Leadership Behavior
… has started to recognize the importance of non-cognitive skills to many successful life outcomes. However, there is little research connecting non-cognitive skills to effective leadership. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify and examine the relationship between the …
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Student Perceptions of Grit, Emotional-Social Intelligence, and the Acquisition of Non-Cognitive Skills in the Cristo Rey Corporate Work Study Program
… their educational and professional endeavors are non-cognitive skills such as grit and emotional-social intelligence (Bar-On, 2006; Bar-On & Parker, 2000; Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007; Duckworth & Quinn, 2009; Gardner, 1983; Goleman, 1995; Salovey & Mayer, 1990; Tough, 2012). With …
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Essays on the Family Economics and Gender
… three studies that focus on the accumulation of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in childhood and financial behaviors of young adults. Chapter 1 analyzes the effect of off-school time use of children on achievement outcomes using unique data on children age 8-12. The data contain detailed …
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Athletic extracurricular activities and academics: an analysis of students from low SES families and their ECA participation
… However, qualitative research uncovered that non-cognitive skills could be a reason for improved academic outcomes. Student interviews highlighted that ECA participation enhanced their non-cognitive skills, which could be a reason for improved academic outcomes. The themes that emerged from …
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Essays on early childhood development and family economics
… choices, and parent's innate ability determine cognitive and non-cognitive abilities of their children. I also examine how effective policy interventions can help to reduce socioeconomic disparities and to enhance child development. In my first essay, I estimate a production function of …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… addition to true taste-based bias, I propose two cognitive biases (halo effect and cognitive fluency effect) and suggest halo effect is the major source of bias. To correct the attenuation bias caused by measurement error, I develop a new way to improve the small sample performance of traditional …
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Modelling the Relationship between Parental Behaviour and Childhood Skill Development: Empirical Evidence from the UK and Canada
… to model the developmental trajectories of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in primary school children and capture the role that parenting plays in the joint evolution of these skills. This framework draws on theoretical models and empirical findings from the fields of economics, …
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Student persistence in STEM fields: school structures and student choices in Finland, Sweden and the United States
… the development of students’ identities and non-cognitive skills. Here, non-cognitive skills (such as self-efficacy and self-concept) are considered part of an ‘adaptive habitus’ and a latent variable comprised of domain-specific non-cognitive skills is used in models of student persistence. …
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A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship Between Teacher Mindset, Student Mindset, and Student Achievement in Reading among K-8 Students
… specifically related to the development of non-cognitive skills, mindset, and student achievement. Currently, the focus of educators is on academic skills; however, research shows that non-cognitive skills, including mindset, can account for 75% of a student’s achievement (Peterson, 2018). …
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Assessing the relationship of grit and student achievement in reading and mathematics in second grade students of the Sault Ste. Marie public school district
… Ste. Marie Area Public School District. The cognitive measures for this study were the subjects’ scores from the Northwest Evaluation Association’s Measures of Academic Progress in the areas of mathematics and reading. The non-cognitive measure for this research was the Grit-S Scale, which …
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Essays in the Economics of Education
… The final essay examines the role that students' cognitive and non-cognitive skills play in their transition from secondary to postsecondary education, and how the effect of these skills are moderated by race, gender, and socioeconomic status.</p>
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The Effectiveness of Cash Transfers as a Policy Instrument in K-16 Education
… who did not receive a scholarship on measures of non-cognitive skills or political tolerance. In addition, the findings presented here suggest that currently enrolled students who barely qualified for an Academic Challenge Scholarship performed no differently after one year than students who …
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Essays on genetic variation and economic behavior
… income, educational attainment, and measures of cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Using seven different sibling types who differ in their degree of genetic relatedness and rearing status, I find moderate family effects on educational attainment, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills. This …
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Three Essays on Labor and Personality
… the impact of mother's human capital on the cognitive and non cognitive skills of her preschool children. The second paper examines the impact of the big five personality traits on the decision to be self employed and on the income of salaried vs. self employed people. We try to distinguish …
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Experiential Learning in the Middle School Living Environment Classroom
… as well as opportunities to build a range of non-cognitive skills such as cooperation, collaboration, independence and responsibility. Additionally, experiential learning is a key tool for creating interest in science and in connecting science contexts from the classroom to real world …
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Occupational change : automation and reskilling risks
… and how these changes affect the returns to skills. Low- and medium-wage occupations' skill demands changed more than those of high-wage ones. Thus, lower-wage workers face not only higher risks of technological displacement but also increased risks of reskilling in order to stay productive. …
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Factors Associated with First-Year Student Retention in Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis of Student Confidence and Use of Support Services on Persistence and Success
… Success Center (SSC), as well as measures of cognitive and non-cognitive skills and confidence as assessed through a standardized nationally normed assessment tool. Additionally, it identified key demographic variables such as gender, race, Pell Grant eligibility, and first-generation status …
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