Diverse Educational Approaches nurturing Non-Cognitive Skills

Adaptive Educational Environments for Cognitive Skills Acquisition

This tutorial deals with the cognitive skills based adaptive educational environments an approach to designing tutoring systems that has been very effective, especially within applied domains where the learning is predominantly concerned with acquiring operational knowledge. Since such environments can accommodate both the 'instruction' and 'construction' of knowledge and actively engage the le...

Preschool Education, Educational Attainment, and Crime Prevention: Contributions of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills.

We investigated the extent to which cognitive and noncognitive skills accounted for the measured links between participation in preschool intervention and high school completion, highest grade completed, and incarceration history in early adulthood. Using data from the Chicago Longitudinal Study, an on-going 20-year investigation of the effects of the school-based Child-Parent Center early inte...

Obstetrician cognitive and affective skills in a diverse academic population.

BACKGROUND Obstetrician cognitive and affective traits have been identified to have relationships with their patients' perinatal outcomes. The objective was to identify relationships between obstetrician demographic and practice characteristics and physician coping, self-efficacy, anxiety and ambiguity tolerance. METHODS Obstetricians at a single institution were surveyed using 5 validated sc...

Literacy Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills and Earnings: An Economist’s Perspective

Does Living in a Fatherless Household Compromise Educational Success? A Comparative Study of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills

This study addresses the relationship between various family forms and the level of cognitive and non-cognitive skills among 15- to 16-year-old students. We measure cognitive skills using standardized scores in mathematics; non-cognitive abilities are captured by a composite measure of internal locus of control related to mathematics. A particular focus lies on father absence although we also e...