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Activities and Accomplishments in Various Domains: Relationships with Creative Personality and Creative Motivation in Adolescence
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Hong, Eunsook; Peng, Yun; O'Neil, Harold F., Jr. – Roeper Review, 2014
This study examined relationships between five personal traits and adolescents' creative activities and accomplishments in five domains--music, visual arts, creative writing, science, and technology. Participants were 439 tenth graders (220 males and 219 females) in China. The relationships were examined using confirmatory factor analysis.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gifted, Personality Traits, Creative Activities
Are Extra Classes the Success behind High Performance and Marks?
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Santhi, N. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
Extra classes have been a fixture in the educational system in India. They pre-date all existing educational programmes and examinations. Yet more recently the justification and reasons for the maintenance of these classes have been called into question. There have been unsubstantiated claims that in some cases the classes have been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 10, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
What High School Students in the Chicago Public Schools Do in Their Out-of-School Time: 2003-2005. Chapin Hall Working Paper
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Goerge, Robert M.; Chaskin, Robert; Guiltinan, Shannon – Chapin Hall Center for Children, 2006
This report provides a descriptive overview of what students in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) do in their out-of-school time, based on responses to a questionnaire administered to ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders. For the past 3 years, Chapin Hall has collected information from CPS high school students on their after-school and weekend…
Descriptors: High School Students, Public Schools, Neighborhoods, After School Programs