The need for science and engineering workers has raised concerns regarding the persistence of undergraduate students in engineering. Since academic institutions ordinarily provide studentswith feedback on course performance through grades, understanding the role of course grades in influencing student major choice and major switching behavior is critical. This research identifies factors associ...

Relying solely on measures of intellectual aptitude and academic performance in university admissions can be disadvantageous to underprivileged students. The Fiji School of Medicine primarily uses such measures to evaluate and select student applicants, and the introduction of supplementary assessments could provide better access for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. This study examined ...

Title of Document: THE INFLUENCES OF APTITUDE, LEARNING CONTEXT, AND LANGUAGE DIFFICULTY CATEGORIZATION ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY. Thomas R. Wagener, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Directed By: Dr. Steven J. Ross, Second Language Acquisition This research investigates the ability of predictive measures to differentiate level of language proficiency among learners across languages, language ca...

We investigated the relationship between date of birth and individual differences in personality and intelligence in two large samples. The first sample consisted of 4000+ middle-aged male subjects from the Vietnam Experience Study; personality was measured by the MMPI items converted to EPQ (scales) and a large battery of cognitive tests were factored to derive general intelligence, g. The sec...

Climate change is expected to influence spatial and temporal distributions of fish stocks. The aim of this paper is to compare climate change impact on a fishery with other factors impacting the performance of fishing fleets. The fishery in question is the Northeast Arctic cod fishery, a well-documented fishery where data on spatial and temporal distributions are available. A cellular automata ...

AAE 35200 is an aerospace structural mechanics course for third-year students majoring in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at Purdue University. In AAE 35200, students were given the opportunity to attend weekly optional one-hour supervised homework sessions instructed by a graduate teaching assistant (TA) during the Fall 2015 semester. The contents of the supervised homework session ...

The Psychosocial Influence of Dental Esthetics in Adolescents as Judged by Peers By Scott T. Henson D.D.S A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Dentistry at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2008 Thesis Director: Steven J. Lindauer, D.M.D., M.D.Sc. Professor and Chair, Department of Orthodontics The...

Willson and Reynolds (in this issue) challenged my thesis that the regression-based discrepancy method (RDM) is not a valid tool to detect aptitude-achievement discrepancies. In this response, I show that the statistical and theoretical counterarguments of Willson and Reynolds are based on a misreading of the statistical models presented. Furthermore, I demonstrate that the regression adjustmen...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this work was to measure family physicians' clinical aptitude for the diagnosis and treatment of metabolic syndrome in a representative sample from six Family Medicine Units (UMF) at the Mexican Institute for Social Security (IMSS), in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. MATERIAL AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional study. A validated and structured instrument was used, wi...