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Anticipatory self-efficacy predicts live musical performance: development and validation of the Music Aptitude Self-Efficacy Scale. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol
High-stakes musical aptitude examinations represent a significant source of evaluative stress for adolescent musicians, yet the psychological mechanisms that influence success in these environments require further empirical investigation.
Coskun Senturk G, Kaya A, Basbug C.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Assessing the impact of musical proficiency on percussion note identification skills in undergraduate medical students: an analysis using the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Med Educ
Background The art of percussion in physical examination is a critical skill for clinicians, offering insights into the condition of internal organs.
Chopra JS, Tyagi R, Reddy SSP.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Revisiting problems with foreign language aptitude. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This study investigated three of the issues recently raised in connection with the traditional concept of foreign language aptitude: the relationship between foreign language aptitude and working memory and phonological short-term memory capacity, the ...
Sáfár, Anna, Kormos, Judit
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Examining Individual Differences in Language Learning: A Neurocognitive Model of Language Aptitude [PDF]

open access: yesNeurobiology of Language, 2021
Abstract A common practice in the cognitive neurosciences is to investigate population-typical phenomena, treating individuals as equal except for a few outliers that are usually discarded from analyses or that disappear on group-level patterns.
Turker, Sabrina   +2 more
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The role of task complexity, modality and aptitude in narrative task performance. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The study reported in this paper investigated the relationship between components of aptitude and the fluency, accuracy, syntactic complexity and lexical variety of performance in two types of written and spoken narrative tasks.
Kormos, Judit, Trebits, Anna
core   +4 more sources

Does Inclusion of Mental Agility Test in Admission Exam Help Better Student Selection in the Health Professions Education Programs?

open access: yesJournal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2022
Academic ability test has been used predominantly in student selection of medical and allied health profession education programs in Nepal. But the use of academic performance as the single selection criterion puts the students from low socioeconomic ...
Babu Raja Maharjan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Academic and Non-Academic Profile Affecting the Nurse Licensure Examination Performance of the Nursing Graduates of a Higher Education Institution in Davao City

open access: yesJPAIR Institutional Research Journal, 2022
The Nurse Licensure Examination is conducted by the Professional Regulatory Commission to screen Nursing graduates who will be licensed to practice nursing.
Romeo Pulgarinas Jr.
doaj   +1 more source

IMPLICIT LANGUAGE APTITUDE: CONCEPTUALIZING THE CONSTRUCT, VALIDATING THE MEASURES, AND EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE [PDF]

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
AbstractThis article discusses the conceptualization, measurement, and validity of a recently emerged construct in the field of second language acquisition (SLA)—implicit language aptitude (alternatively “implicit aptitude”). Implicit aptitude is a set of cognitive abilities that enable learners to make unconscious computations of the distributional ...
Shaofeng Li, Robert DeKeyser
openaire   +1 more source

Examining academic performance across gender differently: Measurement invariance and latent mean differences using bias-corrected bootstrap confidence intervals

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
The aim of this study was threefold: First, to examine the dimensionality of the construct of General Academic Ability (GAA) at the subscale level providing additional insights over and above on the conceptualization of the construct.
Ioannis Tsaousis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Examining the LLAMA aptitude tests

open access: yesJournal of the European Second Language Association, 2017
This study assesses the reliability1 of the LLAMA aptitude tests (Meara, 2005). The LLAMA tests were designed as shorter, free, language-neutral tests loosely based on the MLAT tests (Carroll & Sapon, 1959). They contain four sub-components: vocabulary acquisition, sound recognition, sound-symbol correspondence and grammatical inferencing.
Vivienne Rogers   +4 more
openaire   +5 more sources

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