Advices about College Underachievers’ Educational Transformation

Mathematics underachievers learning spatial knowledge

The relegation of spatial knowledge to a subordinate position has particular implications for examining mathematics underachievement. First, most of use have observed in our teaching that some mathematics underachievers (that is, those who have difficulty comprehending numerical ideas) can comprehend elementary spatial concepts but because they lack fluency in number they cannot make sense of t...

Quality as Transformation: Educational Metamorphosis

The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality

The College Type: Personality and Educational Inequality I examine the effects of cognitive ability and personality traits on college graduation in a recent cohort of young Americans, and how the returns to these traits vary by family background, and find very substantial differences across family background groups in the personality traits that predict successful completion of college, particu...

College Admission Policies and the Educational Pipeline:

Several recent state government decisions banning use of race-sensitive criteria in college admission decisions pose a challenging dilemma for higher education because ethnoracial diversity of the school-age population has increased dramatically since 1960 and persisting race and ethnic inequities in high school attainment restrict the pool of students admissible to colleges and universities. I...

Impact of New Knowledge Asset Information on Analysts’ Advices about Investments

The purpose of this study was to examine professional stock market analysts’ integration of traditional financial information and new knowledge asset information in their decision making about how to advice stockbrokers and investors’ investments. The findings indicate that the categorization and classification of different information contents can influence decision making pathways leading to ...