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Recovery Mode: Non-Cognitive Skills after the Storm
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 We analyze the very short-term causal impact of exposure to one of the most powerful storms ever recorded to strike land on locus of control, beliefs in reciprocity, and risk preferences within a sample of 2,352 individuals. We find that people exhibit significantly lower external locus of control, beliefs in reciprocity, and risk aversion after the ...
Biener, Christian, Landmann, Andreas
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Non-cognitive Support for Postgraduate Studies: A Systematic Review
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Retention of postgraduate students is a complex problem at higher education institutions. To address this concern, various forms of academic support are offered by higher education institutions to nurture and develop the pipeline of postgraduate students.
Jose Frantz +3 more
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Designing and Validating a Competency-Based Academic Achievement Evaluation Model [PDF]
رویکردهای نوین آموزشی, 2021 The present study aims to design and validate a model in assessing and evaluating competence based academic achievement of middle school students.The statistical population of the study includes principals, teachers, deputies and counselors of public ...
Setareh Jahini +2 more
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Economies, 2020 A limited number of studies have investigated the impacts of education on non-cognitive skills, yet they offer mixed results. A few studies suggest no impact, but others report positive impacts of education on non-cognitive skills.
Bahram Sanginabadi
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RELATIONSHIP OF NON-COGNITIVE SKILLS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF UNDERGRADUATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Rehman Journal of Health Sciences, 2022 Introduction: Universities prepare students to play their role in the society and equip students with cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Having the significance of non-cognitive skills in mind, the study was designed to investigate the non-cognitive ...
Amir Faraz, Nasir Ahmad, Sajjad Hussain
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Journal of Intelligence, 2022 Social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills comprise a broad set of abilities that are essential for building and maintaining relationships, regulating emotions, selecting and pursuing goals, or exploring novel stimuli.
Clemens M. Lechner +6 more
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Intergenerational educational mobility – The role of non-cognitive skills [PDF]
Education Economics, 2021 While it has been shown that university attendance is strongly predicted by parental education, we know very little about why some potential 'first in family' or first-generation students make it to university and others do not. This paper looks at the role of non-cognitive skills in the university participation of this disadvantaged group in England ...
Anna Adamecz +2 more
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The development of non-cognitive skills in adolescence [PDF]
Economics Letters, 2018 We use a unique longitudinal data set to study the development of non-cognitive skills in adolescence. We measure – for the first time – the development over six years of the recently introduced non-cognitive skill “Grit.” We also measure the traditional Big Five personality traits.
Höschler, Peter +2 more
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Вопросы образования, 2022 Teachers’ expectations may affect the academic performance of their pupils, leading to the effect of “self-fulfilling prophecies”. Teachers form their expectations about the academic performance of their pupils based on the information they possess about
Elen Yusupova +2 more
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Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and Family Background: Evidence from Sibling Correlations [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background
Anger, Silke, Schnitzlein, Daniel D.
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