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Crowder, M. K.; Holquist, S. E.; Rentz, B.; Arens, S. A. – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
This Study Brief highlights key findings from a study that addresses the need expressed by the education stakeholders in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to better understand their high school students' social-emotional competencies and how those competencies might be associated with students' academic and behavioral outcomes in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Social Development, Emotional Development, Competence
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Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2021
This Study Snapshot highlights key findings from a study on the associations between high school students' self-reported social-emotional competencies and students' high school and college academic and behavioral outcomes in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). In May 2019 grade 11 and 12 students in public high schools in the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Social Development, Emotional Development, Competence
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Hall, Brenda S.; Holland, Carol E. Buchholz; Karsh, Lisa; Wang, Ting – ERS Spectrum, 2011
In this article, we share outcomes from the implementation of a ninth-grade academy in a large, comprehensive, Northern Plains, United States, school district. The article discusses the effectiveness of this reform in terms of the academic and social preparedness for students during the ninth-grade year and transition to high school. Findings…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Focus Groups, Grade 9, School Counselors
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Kirkpatrick, Michael A.; Stant, Kathryn; Downes, Shonta; Gaither, Leatah – Journal of College Student Development, 2008
Locus of control (LOC) is a dimensional construct representing the degree to which individuals perceive reinforcing events in their lives to be the result of their own actions (an "internal" LOC) or fate (an "external" LOC). LOC is meaningfully related to several variables associated with academic achievement. Specifically, high scoring students…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Relationship, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
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Oswald, Frederick L.; Schmitt, Neal; Kim, Brian H.; Ramsay, Lauren J.; Gillespie, Michael A. – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2004
This article describes the development and validation of a biographical data (biodata) measure and situational judgment inventory (SJI) as useful predictors of broadly defined college student performance outcomes. These measures provided incremental validity when considered in combination with standardized college-entrance tests (i.e., SAT/ACT)…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Student Development
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Black, H. Tyrone; Duhon, David L. – Journal of Education for Business, 2003
Having made "continuous improvement" the theme of its accreditation process a decade ago, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) is poised to make "assurance of learning" the current focus of the faculty/student exchange. In this article, the authors discuss how to use standardized assessment tests…
Descriptors: Test Results, Test Reliability, Standardized Tests, Accreditation (Institutions)