Background. Although the evidence in support of the variability of students' learning strategies has expanded in recent years, less is known about the explanatory base of these individual differences in terms of the joint Influences of personal and contextual characteristics. Aims. Previous studies have often investigated how student learning is…

This paper reports a series of studies in the development of a Study Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) for use with university students. It attempted to determine optimal ways of combining SBQ item scores: by sorting people's responses to items (R-analysis), or by sorting items on the basis of how they discriminate between people (Q-analysis).…

Comparison is made between the very high proportion of adolescents found by Somerville to be formal operational thinkers, and the much lower proportion found by Lovell. Evidence about the representativeness of Somerville's sample is analyzed suggesting that it is comparable with that of an average English selective school. (Editor)

This paper attempts to examine the characteristics of sixth-form sylbs and sylfs and to compare them with those of sylbs and sylfs found in other populations, emphasis being given to those personality traits that might be worthy of further attention in the current reappraisal of the sixth-form. (Author)

Attitudes towards mathematics of over 300 first-year sixth-form (secondary) students were studied in relation to the type of mathematics curriculum previously followed by them, to their choice of sixth-form courses and the students' intelligence, personality and mathematical achievement. Examines students' preferences for different modes of…

Attempts to relate Jensen's Level I associative ability and Level II coceptual ability to the learning of meaningful verbal materials appropriate for the solution of factual and inferential problems presented in classroom-like situations. (Author/RK)

The attainments, attitudes, personality characteristics and friendship relations of three successive year groups of children (n254, 252 and 234) were assessed towards the end of their first term in secondary school. (Editor/RK)

Three studies of prediction of academic achievement in introductory psychology courses are reported. The Achiever Personality scale of Fricke's Opinion, Attitude and Interest Survey and Brown and Holtzman's Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes made independent contributions beyond intelligence in the prediction of course grades in two of these…

The major hypothesis of the present study was that individuals with high need for achievement and high intellectual achievement responsibility would be more attracted to the opportunities provided by B.Ed. as opposed to certificate course in colleges of education. (Authors)

After defining "docility" this research considers some factors affecting it, specifically, the effects on Student docility of age and sex, together with the effects of the social structure of the school and of the family. (Author/RK)

Piaget's theoretical position assumes that the ability to solve complete multiplication will be an earlier development in the child than partial multiplicative classification and his experimental findings support this hypothesis. The present experiment using 159 children aged 4:7 to 7:6 years re-examined the issue. (Editor/RK)

This study examined the effect of provided individuated information on student teachers' stereotypic perceptions of the abilities of Israeli Jewish pupils of different ethnic backgrounds. One group received relevant information, another received irrelevant information, and the third no information. None of the groups based their assessment of…