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A Closer Look at Social Skills and School Performance: Students' Peer Relations Skills and Assertion Skills as Predictors for Their Written and Oral Performances
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Jurkowski, Susanne; Hänze, Martin – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2017
Students' individual learning is supposed to be based on cognitive and social processes. Therefore, students' social skills are assumed to play an important role for school performance. This study set out to investigate the links between students' peer relations skills and assertion skills and their grades for written performances and oral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 9, Interpersonal Competence
Full-Time Ability Grouping of Gifted Students: Impacts on Social Self-Concept and School-Related Attitudes
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Vogl, Katharina; Preckel, Franzis – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2014
Positive socioemotional outcomes and developments represent important educational goals. Full-time ability grouping of gifted students has been criticized for potentially detrimental socioemotional effects. Therefore, in the present longitudinal study, we investigated whether or not social self-concepts and school-related attitudes and beliefs are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Ability Grouping, Academically Gifted
Studying Critical Classroom Encounters: The Experiences of Students in German College Education
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Voss, Roediger – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2009
Purpose: This paper seeks to explore satisfactory and unsatisfactory classroom (student-lecturer) encounters in higher education from a student's perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The critical incident technique (CIT) is used to categorise positive and negative student-lecturer interactions, to reveal quality dimensions of the lecturer,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Assertiveness, Teaching Skills
Age Differences in the Effects of Social Influence on Children's Eyewitness Performance and Their Metacognitive Monitoring
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Schwarz, Stefanie; Roebers, Claudia M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
The current work investigated the effects of social influence on children's recall accuracy and metacognitive monitoring. Two studies were conducted in which 8-and 10-year-olds were confronted with postevent information in an interview situation. An interviewer (Study 1) or a confederate (Study 2) provided postevent information with two levels of…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Age Differences, Social Influences, Metacognition