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Ryan, Katherine E.; Ryan, Allison M.; Arbuthnot, Keena; Samuels, Maurice – Educational Researcher, 2007
The recent No Child Left Behind legislation has defined a vital role for large-scale assessment in determining whether students are learning. Given this increased role of standardized testing as a means of accountability, the purpose of this article is to consider how individual differences in motivational and psychological processes may…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Federal Legislation, Standardized Tests, Student Motivation
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Mumaw, Randall J.; And Others – Memory and Cognition, 1985
Undergraduates (n=99) differing in spatial ability were tested on problems involving the mental rotation of familiar alphanumeric stimuli and unfamiliar stimuli drawn from the Primary Mental Abilities Space Test. Individual differences in spatial ability were associated with speed rather than accuracy of mental rotation processes. Ability…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education, Individual Differences