Oftentimes, learning mathematics involves using technology as a conscious attempt to understand the material in a new and accessible mode, to increase performance, and to expand one’s knowledge regardless of the level of training. While comparative assessments of students’ performances in blended and face-to-face environments are essential, the authors of this paper analyze students’ mathematic...

We estimated the effect of human capital on leadership. Our human capital measures included not only the traditional measures of education and on-the-job learning but also measures of cognitive and noncognitive abilities. The measures of cognitive abilities included numeracy, literacy, and problem solving, and the noncognitive abilities measures included perseverance, openness to learning, and ...

Dr. William Croone, who at his death in 1684 left plans for the lectureship he had designed to found, was interested in the nature of, and the laws governing, muscular motion, and it is upon one aspect of this subject that I should like to speak today-namely, the particular disturbance of psychomotility that is known as perseveration. The phenomenon is not to be confused with persistence or per...

In this research, we investigate how grittier individuals might incur some costs by persisting when they could move on. Grittier participants were found to be less willing to give up when failing even though they were likely to incur a cost for their persistence. First, grittier participants are more willing to risk failing to complete a task by persisting on individual items. Second, when they...