Achievement (Latest Articles)

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Clerkship directors' practices with respect to preparing students for and using the National Board of Medical Examiners Subject Exam in medicine: results of a United States and Canadian Survey.

29 Jun 2009 PURPOSE: Clerkship directors' practices regarding the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) subject exam in medicine are important in enhancing educational evaluation policy. The study's purpose was to determine clerkship directors' use of the ...
rec_pub_19550178-clerkship-directors-practices-respect-preparing-students-using.htm

Playing TETRIS for science counter-regulatory affective processing in a motivationally "hot" context.

22 Jun 2009 We adapted the computer game TETRIS to investigate the process of affective-motivational counter-regulation, that is, attentional biases for emotional stimuli that are in opposition to the momentary motivational focus. Counter-regulation is seen as ...
rec_pub_19555920-playing-tetris-science-counter-regulatory-affective-processing.htm

National differences in gender-science stereotypes predict national sex differences in science and math achievement.

20 Jun 2009 About 70% of more than half a million Implicit Association Tests completed by citizens of 34 countries revealed expected implicit stereotypes associating science with males more than with females. We discovered that nation-level implicit stereotypes ...
rec_pub_19549876-national-differences-gender-science-stereotypes-predict-national-sex.htm

"Why do they become vulnerable when faced with the challenges of old age?" Elderly people who committed suicide, described by those who knew them.

10 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Suicidal behavior among the elderly is a research field in which qualitative and quantitative methods can and should supplement each other. The objective of this qualitative study is to investigate whether the descriptions of elderly ...
rec_pub_19519985-why-vulnerable-faced-challenges-old-age-elderly-people-committed.htm

Effects of achievement goal striving on well-being: the moderating role of the explicit achievement motive.

2 Jun 2009 This research is based on the theoretical conception of motives and goals as distinct motivational concepts. Previous research has demonstrated that discrepancies between implicit motives and goals have negative consequences for well-being. The ...
rec_pub_19498069-effects-achievement-goal-striving-moderating-role-explicit.htm

Gender, performance level, and competence standards in task groups.

30 May 2009 Male and female undergraduates (N=240) participated in opposite-sex dyads and worked on a computerized visual task presented as "masculine." Participants in the eight experimental conditions received either higher or lower scores than their partner; ...
rec_pub_19827183-gender-performance-level-competence-standards-task-groups.htm

The black-white test score gap and early home environment.

30 May 2009 Based on panel data for three age cohorts of children from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we examine how early home environment contributes to black-white achievement gaps at different developmental stages and the extent to which early gaps ...
rec_pub_19827182-the-black-white-test-score-gap-early-home-environment.htm

Factorial structure and cross-cultural invariance of the Oral Impacts on Daily Performances.

30 May 2009 The issue of cross-cultural construct validation and measurement invariance of the Oral Impacts on Daily Performances (OIDP) questionnaire is important. Using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), this study evaluated a proposed three-factor structure ...
rec_pub_19583758-factorial-structure-cross-cultural-invariance-oral-impacts-daily.htm

Isokinetic strength during knee flexion and extension in elite fencers.

30 May 2009 The relation of leg preference and muscular strength in elite fencers was examined. The dominant and nondominant extensor and flexor muscles of 30 elite fencers (M age = 18.2 yr., SD = 2.0 yr.; M height = 173 cm, SD=7.4 cm; M weight = 62.7 kg, ...
rec_pub_19725328-isokinetic-strength-knee-flexion-extension-elite-fencers.htm

Perceptions of the motivational climate created by parents of young Portuguese swimmers.

30 May 2009 The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of parent-initiated motivational climate in young Portuguese swimmers. 244 participants (130 boys, 114 girls; M age = 13 yr., SD = 2), involved in advanced swimming programs (n = 88) or ...
rec_pub_19725320-perceptions-motivational-climate-created-parents-young-portuguese.htm

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