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Do You Need a Roadmap or Can Someone Give You Directions: When School-Focused Possible Identities Change so Do Academic Trajectories
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Eric Horowitz; Daphna Oyserman; Morteza Dehghani; Sorensen Nicholas – Grantee Submission, 2020
Introduction: Despite the assumed importance of school-focused possible identities for academic motivation and outcomes, interventions rarely assess the effect of the intervention on possible identities. This may be due to difficulty coding open-ended text at scale but leaves open a number of questions: 1) how do school-focused possible identities…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Educational Environment, Context Effect, Identification (Psychology)
Do You Need a Roadmap or Can Someone Give You Directions: When School-Focused Possible Identities Change so Do Academic Trajectories
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Eric Horowitz; Daphna Oyserman; Morteza Dehghani; Nicholas Sorensen – Journal of Adolescence, 2020
Introduction: Despite the assumed importance of school-focused possible identities for academic motivation and outcomes, interventions rarely assess the effect of intervention on possible identities. This may be due to difficulty coding open-ended text at scale but leaves open a number of questions: 1) how do school-focused possible identities…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Educational Environment, Context Effect, Identification (Psychology)
The Relation between Comprehensive Assessment Procedures and Diagnostic Stability in School-Aged Children Identified with Learning Disabilities
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Rosenblum, Yonatan; Larochette, Anne-Claire; Harrison, Allyson G.; Armstrong, Irene – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2010
Learning Disabilities (LDs) affect a significant number of students in elementary and secondary school. In order for these students, along with parents and teachers, to understand the nature of their specific difficulties, and have equal opportunity in academic settings, a comprehensive psychological report containing properly informed…
Descriptors: Psychological Evaluation, Learning Disabilities, Test Interpretation, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Methods and Procedures in Screening Gifted Mayan Students
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Escobedo, Pedro Sanchez – Gifted and Talented International, 2008
Instruments, procedures, and criteria for the screening of Mayan students in Yucatan, Mexico are depicted and evaluated by analyzing the results of their use on 242 students in five different regions of Yucatan. These 242, 8th grade students were selected from a pool of 1,530 potentially gifted students. Participants responded to a variety of…
Descriptors: Maya (People), Standardized Tests, Foreign Countries, Academically Gifted