The Relative Contributions of Social-Personality Traits, Cognitive Learning Factors and SAT Scores to Grade Point Average | Chapter 5 | An Overview of Literature, Language and Education Research Vol. 5

To date, studies have simultaneously examined the relative predictive powers of two or three factors on GPA (Grade Point Average). However, because GPA is such an important benchmark of academic success, further investigation is warranted in order to further our practical and theoretical understanding. The present study examines the relative powers of five social/personality factors, five cognitive/learning factors, and SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) scores to predict freshmen and non-freshmen (sophomores, juniors, seniors) academic success (i.e., GPA). All factors were assessed using psychometric measures. The results revealed many significant predictors of GPA for both freshmen and non-freshmen. However, subsequent regressions, which systematically analysed the contributions of social/personality factors, cognitive/learning factors, and SAT scores on GPA, showed that only academic self-efficacy, epistemic belief of learning, and high-knowledge integration, which is an individual’s ability to integrate new information with prior knowledge, explained unique variance in GPA (19%-freshmen and 23.2%-non-freshmen). Further, for freshmen, SAT scores explained an additional unique 10.6% variance after the influences attributed to these three predictors were removed whereas for non-freshmen, SAT scores failed to explain any additional variance. These results highlight the unique and important contributions of academic self-efficacy, epistemic belief of learning and high-knowledge integration to GPA beyond other previously-identified predictors. They also suggest that future research should conceptualize GPA as a multi-faceted construct that can only truly be understood by integrating multiple content areas.

 

Author (s) Details

Brenda Hannon
Department of Psychology and Sociology, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas, USA.

 

 

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ePortfolios for High School Students: Application and Assessment | Chapter 8 | An Overview of Literature, Language and Education Research Vol. 2

 We proposed to introduce four-year ePortfolios for high school students, with teacher-certified content featuring the best of the student’s activities and accomplishments in each of her four high school years. Our focus is high school students following STEM learning paths. We argue for a new system replacing test-focused rote learning with deep reflective learning. Fortunately, new movements in education are supportive of this objective. Growing numbers of colleges and universities are reducing or even removing the evaluative weights placed on standardized tests such as the SAT and ACT. The huge evaluative weight college admissions systems place on standardized test scores carries unacceptable negatives, many with social justice attributes. First, the test-taking skill of the candidate is the top measure for surviving the first cut. We suggest replacing these tests with secure and vetted student electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) that feature many artifacts of a student’s high school achievements, especially those associated with Project-Based Learning (PBL), as well as the student’s personal written reflections recorded over four years of learning. This more personalized admissions process will provide evaluative information far richer than what is currently available. Biases connected to gender, race, community wealth, and family wealth should all be lessened by the suggested ePortfolio approach. These biases should also be lessened by standardized testing. A number of significant and integrated changes to our educational system are necessary for the successful implementation of ePortfolios on a large scale. These include college admissions offices decreasing the weights assigned to standardized tests; high schools filling the void with ePortfolio content, requiring students to create ePortfolios starting in their freshman year; process reorganization to provide students with quantitative project-based learning activities throughout high school; and the provision of methods and resources for high school teachers and college admissions offices to evaluate ePortfolio content.

 

Author (s) Details

 

Richard C. Larson
Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Soheil Sibdari
Decision & Information Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA

 

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A Comparative Study of the University Entrance Examination in China and the USA: From the Perspective of the Social Reproduction Based on SAT and Gaokao | Chapter 7 | Research Highlights in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 7

 Gaokao and SAT advance the social duplication in different ways all the while the university entrance test. In China and the United States, Gaokao and SAT are university entrance exams that seem to perform in a similar habit, but are rife with differences. Gaokao and SAT not only represent two various educational systems, they still represent two forms of public reproduction. In comparison with the SAT, Gaokao is relatively fair since the public capitalism does not completely filter in China's educational order. The aspect of tuition can likewise be fully accepted. In the United Stated, however,  SAT has been entirely inundated for one American capital. This is because university admissions in the United States are not established a single test that takes into account the entire sketch of a student.as they trust that developing comprehensive kinds requires important time and effort, that must be accompanied by cash available for use. As a result, the universities in the United States prefer all-curved students, regularly come from high public level families.

Author(s) Details:

Yuqiao Liu,
Liaoning Province Shenyang Feiyue Experimental High School (International Section), University of Florida, No.9 Yalujiang North Street, Huanggu District, Shenyang, China.

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Modern Approach of Testing Multiple Faults (Toggling Faults, Bridge Faults, and SAT) of Combo & Sequential Blocks Using ROBDD | Chapter 5 | Research and Developments in Engineering Research Vol. 2

 The main aim of the research to find the weaknesses at all levels of all philosophy designs which includes in both producing combinations and sequential blocks of the design. In this study, we grown ROBDD (Reduced Ordered Binary Decision Diagram) designs to find toggling faults, bridge sins, and SAT (Stuck at Fault). Here, we grown sequential blocks utilizing ROBDD and applied to the mux to find fastened at faults that link to the combo. We more developed the bridges 'tween the blocks of ROBDD designs and converting bureaucracy to and or logic to find the bridge weaknesses of the design. Toggle and bridge faults were derivative using fastened at fault methods. Focused on the path delays by alluding the faults (toggling and bridge mistakes) at mux logic out utilizing simple fastened at faults orders. In our research the basic design modules are ROBDD revolution of both producing combinations and sequential blocks are created and tested utilizing Multiplexer and K-map Simplification Methods. According to the changed research, modern tests for fastened-at-fault detections are inadequate to detect the mistakes in multiple fastened- at-faults, bridge mistakes, and also toggling blames.

Author(s) Details:

K. V. B. V. Rayudu,
Research Centre Imarat, DRDO, Hyderabad, India.

Jahagirdar,
Research Centre Imarat, DRDO, Hyderabad, India.

P. Sreehari Rao,
NIT Warangal, India.

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Isolation and Molecular Characterization of BCSP-31 Gene of Brucella abortus, a Significant Tool in Making Marker and DNA Vaccines from Cases of Bovine Abortion in an Organised Dairy Farm in India | Chapter 6 | Newest Updates in Agriculture and Veterinary Science Vol. 4

 Brucellosis, from abortion in females and orchitis in men along with unproductiveness in both sexes, is an important zoonotic ailment in many developing countries. Isolation of Brucella structure is considered as the gold standard demonstrative method for brucellosis because it is specific and allows biotyping of the segregate, which is appropriate for control of brucellosis through vaccination. This chapter reports the seclusion, identification and microscopic detection of Brucella abortus. Brucella abortus was detected in four dispassionate samples by culture seclusion and was subsequently confirmed by PCR. Molecular description of Brucella abortus BCSP-31 gene (protein that frequently elicits an invulnerable response all along infection and a significant form in making marker and DNA vaccines) was favorably done in this chapter.

Author(s) Details:

Chhabil Singh,
Central Military Veterinary Laboratory (CMVL), Meerut Cantt, Meerut (U.P.), India.

Surender Kumar,
Central Military Veterinary Laboratory (CMVL), Meerut Cantt, Meerut (U.P.), India.

S. B. R. Sagi,
Central Military Veterinary Laboratory (CMVL), Meerut Cantt, Meerut (U.P.), India.

Vikas Thakur,
Central Military Veterinary Laboratory (CMVL), Meerut Cantt, Meerut (U.P.), India.

Amit Kumar,
Central Military Veterinary Laboratory (CMVL), Meerut Cantt, Meerut (U.P.), India.

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