The decision sciences are increasingly challenged to advance methods for modeling analysts, accounting for both analytic strengths and weaknesses, to improve inferences taken from increasingly large and complex sources of data. We examine whether psychometric measures-personality, cognitive style, motivated cognition-predict analytic performance and whether psychometric measures are competitive...

A Comparison of Methods Used to Predict Success in Ninth Grade Elementary Algebra by Sherry Slade, Master of Science Utah State University, 1969 Major Professor: Dr. Glendon Casto Department: Psychology A study was conducted at North Cache Junior High School in Richmond, Utah, during the 1967-68 school year to determine an effective method of predicting which students would be able t o succeed ...

Individual differences in second language (L2) aptitude have been assumed to depend upon a variety of cognitive and personality factors. Especially, the cognitive factor phonological working memory has been conceptualised as language learning device. However, strong associations between phonological working memory and L2 aptitude have been previously found in early-stage learners only, not in a...

Montreal high school students studying French as a second language completed a battery of tests including measures of linguistic aptitude. verbal intelligence, and various attitudinal and motivational characteristics. Analysis of the intercorrelations of these tests yielded two orthogonal factors equally related to ratings of achievement in French: a linguistic aptitude and a "motivational" fac...