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The Sensitive, Imaginative, Articulate Art Student and Conservative, Cool, Numerate Science Student: Individual Differences in Art and Science Students
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Furnham, Adrian; Crump, John – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
In all 794 young people aged around 30 yrs completed three intelligence (Raven's Progressive matrices: GMA Numerical and GMA Verbal) and one personality inventory (16PF). They were all graduates and 173 were identified clearly as Arts graduates and 518 as Science students. There were various sex differences on all measures. All seven hypotheses…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Intelligence Tests, Personality Measures, Art Education
Soft Skills in Higher Education: Importance and Improvement Ratings as a Function of Individual Differences and Academic Performance
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Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Arteche, Adriane; Bremner, Andrew J.; Greven, Corina; Furnham, Adrian – Educational Psychology, 2010
Three UK studies on the relationship between a purpose-built instrument to assess the importance and development of 15 "soft skills" are reported. "Study 1" (N = 444) identified strong latent components underlying these soft skills, such that differences "between-skills" were over-shadowed by differences…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Skill Analysis, Skill Development
Typical Intellectual Engagement, Big Five Personality Traits, Approaches to Learning and Cognitive Ability Predictors of Academic Performance
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Furnham, Adrian; Monsen, Jeremy; Ahmetoglu, Gorkan – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
Background: Both ability (measured by power tests) and non-ability (measured by preference tests) individual difference measures predict academic school outcomes. These include fluid as well as crystalized intelligence, personality traits, and learning styles. This paper examines the incremental validity of five psychometric tests and the sex and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intelligence Tests, Test Results, Predictor Variables
What Facets of Openness and Conscientiousness Predict Fluid Intelligence Score?
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Moutafi, Joanna; Furnham, Adrian; Crump, John – Learning & Individual Differences, 2006
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of fluid intelligence (gf) with trait Openness and Conscientiousness. A total of 2658 participants completed the NEO PI-R [Costa Jr., P. T. & MCrae, R. (1985). Revised NEO Personality Inventory and Five-Factor Inventory Professional Manual. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intelligence Tests, Individual Differences, Intelligence
Personality, Intelligence and General Knowledge
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Furnham, Adrian; Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas – Learning & Individual Differences, 2006
Three studies, all on student populations, looked at the relationship between a recently psychometrised measure of General Knowledge [Irwing, P., Cammock, T., & Lynn, R. (2001). Some evidence for the existence of a general factor of semantic memory and its components. "Personality and Individual Differences," 30, 857-871], both long…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Personality Traits, Individual Differences, Intelligence Tests