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Individual Differences and Notetaking: Exploring Alternative Strategies for Improved Test Performance
… notetaking strategies and their relation to test performance. In Experiment 1, participants handwrote or typed lecture notes, and were instructed to organize their notes or to transcribe the lecture. Notetaking with computers led to better test performance than taking handwritten notes. …
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The Impact of Incentives on Neuropsychological Test Performance: An Analog Study
… yet to explore the impact of other incentives on test performance. The present study sought to examine the rate of effort test failure, symptom report, and neuropsychological test performance in college students assigned to one of three conditions: Fake Good, Fake Bad, and No Incentive conditions. …
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The Effect of Cochlear Dysfunction on Central Auditory Speech Test Performance
… cochlear dysfunction on central auditory speech test performance. There has been limited research reported concerning the effects of peripheral hearing loss occurring in the absence of central auditory pathology on tests specifically designed to diagnose central auditory impairment. Similarly, …
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Situational Motivation and Achievement-Test Performance of Hopeful and Fearful Pupils
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T17:34:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6000218.pdf: 6458556 bytes, checksum: c052b93d542745e8e8d66c89ca2ebfe8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1959
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Language effects on semantic fluency test performance among South African adults
Issues around the cultural fairness of cognitive tests and their administration are becoming increasingly important as the global spread of neuropsychological practice quickens. Most of these tests are developed and standardized in high-income countries of the global north, and so when used in low- …
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An Investigation of the Relationship Between Motivation, Test Preparation and Test Performance
The relationship between motivation, test preparation, and test performance was investigated using two samples, lire fighter applicants and college students. Motivation and test preparation were measured by Arvey and Stickland's (1991) Test Attitude Survey; test performance consisted of selection …
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The effect of observational method and task complexity on neuropsychological test performance
… despite research clearly demonstrating altered performance on neuropsychological tests under such conditions. Past research into the social facilitation effect suggests attentional conflict (Baron, 1986; Manstead & Semin, 1980) and increased anxiety (Guerin & Innes, 1982; Guerin, 1983) when …
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Factors Influencing the English Reading Test Performance of Spanish-English Bilingual Children
… factors that influenced the English reading test performance of 51 Spanish-speaking Hispanic children at the fifth- and sixth-grade levels as compared to that of 53 Anglo children enrolled in the same classrooms. The role of reading tests in the assessment and placement of children makes it …
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The effects of selected variables on test performance for mildly handicapped students
… selected variables as they relate to the performance of sixth-grade learning disabled (LD) and behaviorally-emotionally handicapped (BEH) students on minimum competency tests administered by the North Carolina public schools. The sample consisted of 313 LD and 79 BEH subjects who attended …
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A Comparison of Intellectual Test Performance Across Native American and European American Children
… were made across the groups on Verbal IQ and Performance IQ, individual subtests, individual subtest items and two composite index scores. Results indicated no significant scorino differences between the two groups on Performance IQ or, on the Perceptual Organization Index, Significant scoring …
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ANALYZING AND PREDICTING ARMY COMBAT FITNESS TEST PERFORMANCE: A STATISTICAL AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH
… and transitioned from the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT) to the Army Combat Fitness Test to reflect modern combat demands better and minimize injuries. This thesis applies machine learning techniques—including Logistic Regression (LR), Support Vector Machines (SVM), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), …
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Comparing note taking and test performance in methods and modes of note taking conditions
… to support long term retention (e.g., prior to test taking). The current study focuses on the encoding aspect of note taking by examining the note taking behaviors and outcomes for learners in a simulated lecture setting assigned to different note taking conditions. Although note taking can be …
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The Effect of Intersentential Constraints on Cloze Test Performance on Expository and Narrative Material
… a cloze exercise should negatively affect cloze performance. The specific questions in this study were designed to assess the effect of order of the sentences, structure of the text, prior knowledge, and age/maturity level on the cloze performance of students. The subjects in this study were …
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Effects of several levels of white noise induced arousal on rod and frame test performance.
Dept. of Psychology. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1974 .M14. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-13, Section: A. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1974.
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The role of rhythm step on pro-agility test performance in Division I football players
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Mental Test Performance as a Function of Payoff Conditions, Item Difficulty, and Degree of Speeding
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-04T17:33:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5900560.pdf: 3596066 bytes, checksum: be501dd792ac3ba571c0db066a4f63f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1958
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