Individual Differences Related to College Students’ Course Performance in Calculus II

Real-life decision making in college students. II: Do individual differences show reliable effects?

First-year undergraduates participated in a short-term longitudinal study of real-life decision making over their first 14 months of college. They were surveyed about 7 different decisions: choosing courses for upcoming terms (on 3 different occasions), choosing an academic major (twice), planning for the upcoming summer, and planning for sophomore-year housing. They also completed a survey of ...

How Today's College Students use Wikipedia for Course-related Research

Individual focus and knowledge contribution Lada A. Adamic, Xiao Wei, Jiang Yang, Sean Gerrish, Kevin K Nam, Gavin S. Clarkson How today’s college students use Wikipedia for course-related research Alison J. Head, Michael B. Eisenberg Peer governance and Wikipedia: Identifying and understanding the problems of Wikipedia’s governance Vasilis Kostakis The role of advertising in financing open acc...

cognitive factors related to regular physical activity in college students

background & aim : despite the well evidenced health benefits of regular physical activity, many iranian college students do not engage in physical activity sufficiently. the aim of this study was to assess cognitive factors related to regular physical activity in college students in hormozgan university of medical sciences, bandar abbass, iran. methods & materials : a total of 314 students fro...

Individual differences in course choice result in underestimation of the validity of college admissions systems.

We demonstrate that the validity of SAT scores and high school grade point averages (GPAs) as predictors of academic performance has been underestimated because of previous studies' reliance on flawed performance indicators (i.e., college GPA) that are contaminated by the effects of individual differences in course choice. We controlled for this contamination by predicting individual course gra...

Gender and Ethnic Differences Among College Students