The present study investigated the developmental dynamics of general and subject-specific (i.e., mathematics, French, and German) components of students' academic self-concept, anxiety, and interest. To this end, the authors integrated three lines of research: (a) hierarchical and multidimensional approaches to the conceptualization of each construct, (b) longitudinal analyses of bottom-up and ...

OBJECTIVE To quantify interest in an academic career at the dermatology resident and residency applicant level. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. PARTICIPANTS Dermatology residents attending a basic science course and residency applicants applying to a single residency program. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Self-reported level of interest in an academic dermatology career, reasons for losing interes...

over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. unfortunately, conference paper titles (cpts) have only recently begun to receive attention. the aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of cpts in applied linguistics. a data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...