Non-cognitive Skills and Factors in Educational Attainment / / edited by Myint Swe Khine, Shaljan Areepattamannil.

This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. It discusses the manner in which ed...

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Superior document:Contemporary Approaches to Research in Learning Innovations
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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Approaches to Research in Learning Innovations
Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 446 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Myint Swe Khine and Shaljan Areepattamannil
  • Non-cognitive Skills and Factors in Educational Success and Academic Achievement / Myint Swe Khine
  • Connecting Noncognitive Development to the Educational Pipeline / Kevin T. Petway , Meghan W. Brenneman and Patrick C. Kyllonen
  • The Need to Address Non-cognitive Skills in the Education Policy Agenda / Emma García
  • Non-Cognitive Variables and Academic Achievement / Maria-Jose Sanchez-Ruiz , Jamil El Khoury , George Saadé and Miriam Salkhanian
  • Considering Non-cognitive Factors in the Preparation and Selection of Educators / John R. McIntyre and Rebecca Vecchione
  • Understanding Attitudes in Education / Anastasiya A. Lipnevich , Kalina Gjicali and Stefan Krumm
  • Relation Between Non-cognitive Factors of Learning and the Students’ Academic Performance / Valerica Anghelache
  • Non-Cognitive Influences on Academic Achievement / Jihyun Lee and Lazar Stankov
  • A Synthesis of Causal Evidence Linking Non-cognitive Skills to Later Outcomes for Children and Adolescents / Leslie Morrison Gutman and Ingrid Schoon
  • Non-cognitive Factors of Learning as Early Indicators of Students At-Risk of Failing in Tertiary Education / Geraldine Gray , Colm McGuinness and Philip Owende
  • The Measurement of Social and Emotional Skills and their Association with Academic Attainment in British Cohort Studies / Heather Joshi , Bilal Nasim and Alissa Goodman
  • Non-cognitive Assessment and Student Engagement / Anna Nadirova and John Burger
  • Implicit Broken Structure / Danny Moiré Thom and Marni Finkelstein
  • The Study of Non-cognitive Attributes in Education / Peter Clough , Steven Oakes , Neil Dagnall , Helen St Clair-Thompson and Sarah McGeown
  • Mental Toughness / Helen St Clair-Thompson and Sarah McGeown
  • It Is Not about “Being Best in the World” … It Is about “Being Best for the World” / Margaret Anne Carter , Merilyn Dasson and Katerina Kanakis
  • The Role of Non-cognitive Factors in Pathways to College Attendance and Degree Completion / Suh-Ruu Ou and Arthur J. Reynolds
  • Non-cognitive Correlates of Emirati Adolescents’ Mathematics Performance / Shaljan Areepattamannil , Anita G. Welch , Michael Melkonian and Sumaya Saqr
  • Noncognitive Skills / Ildefonso Mendez and Gema Zamarro
  • Non-cognitive Variables and Academic Success / Ernest Afari and Myint Swe Khine
  • Index / Myint Swe Khine and Shaljan Areepattamannil.