Achievement

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Are traditional cognitive tests useful in predicting clinical success?

The purpose of this research was to determine the predictive value of the Dental Admission Test (DAT) for clinical success using Ackermans theory of ability determinants of skilled performance. The Ackerman theory is a valid, reliable schema in the ...
Sarah A Gray, Lisa P Deem, Sorin R Straja (J Dent Educ, 200211)
traditional-cognitive-tests-useful-predicting-clinical-success.asp

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The relationship of empowerment and selected personality characteristics to nursing job satisfaction.

PURPOSE: This study reports on a secondary data analysis undertaken to better understand the determinants of job satisfaction for hospital nurses. Both workplace and personal factors can contribute to job satisfaction.THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: Kanters ...
Milisa Manojlovich, Heather K Spence Laschinger (J Nurs Adm, 200211)
relationship-empowerment-selected-personality-characteristics-nursing.asp

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Test-taking anxiety among nursing & general college students.

This study examined whether nursing students experience an unusual amount of debilitative anxiety in academic achievement, compared to general university students and provided senior psychiatric nursing students with a hands-on experience in research. A ...
Thomas Brewer (J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv, 200211)
test-taking-anxiety-nursing-general-college-students.asp

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Predictors of success in dental hygiene education: a six-year review.

The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive reliability of incoming grade point average (GPA), incoming math/science GPA, and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores in predicting success in dental hygiene education. Success in dental hygiene ...
Mary C Downey, Marie A Collins, William D Browning (J Dent Educ, 200211)
predictors-success-dental-hygiene-education-six-year-review.asp

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The motivating function of thinking about the future: expectations versus fantasies.

Two forms of thinking about the future are distinguished: expectations versus fantasies. Positive expectations (judging a desired future as likely) predicted high effort and successful performance, but the reverse was true for positive fantasies ...
Gabriele Oettingen, Doris Mayer (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200211)
motivating-function-thinking-future-expectations-versus-fantasies.asp

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Ethnicity, gender, and academic self-concept: a preliminary examination of academic disidentification and implications for psychologists.

This study examined data from 358 African American students and 229 European American students to determine if the phenomenon of academic disidentification occurred. Analyses revealed that among African American male students, the relationship between ...
Kevin O Cokley (Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol, 200211)
ethnicity-gender-academic-self-concept-preliminary-examination.asp

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Sensitivity to status-based rejection: implications for African American students college experience.

The authors proposed a process model whereby experiences of rejection based on membership in a devalued group can lead people to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely react to status-based rejection. To test the model, the authors focused on ...
Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Geraldine Downey, Valerie J Purdie, Angelina Davis, Janina Pietrzak (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200210)
sensitivity-status-based-rejection-implications-african-american.asp

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Implicit and self-attributed achievement motives: concordance and predictive validity.

As a complement to the literature on the discriminant validity of implicit and self-attributed motives, this study explored two issues that point to convergences: moderation of concordance between implicit and self-attributed achievement motives, and the ...
Todd M Thrash, Andrew J Elliot (J Pers, 200210)
implicit-self-attributed-achievement-motives-concordance-predictive.asp

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Using culturally sensitive theories and research to meet the academic needs of low-income African American children.

The economic and social barriers to the academic and social success of many African American children remain in place as the new millennium begins. These realities provide impetus for developing community-based partnership education programs designed to ...
Carolyn M Tucker, Keith C Herman (Am Psychol, 200210)
culturally-sensitive-theories-research-meet-academic-needs-low-income.asp

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Bisecting and behavior: lateral inattention predicts 8-week academic performance.

Converging evidence supports a left hemisphere role in defensive repression and sensation seeking. This led to the hypothesis that students with a relatively active left hemisphere would perform poorly during 8 weeks of a college class. The measure of ...
Roger A Drake (Brain Cogn, 200210)
bisecting-behavior-lateral-inattention-predicts-week-academic.asp