Normative variation in mathematical aptitude (MA) is relevant to many aspects of societal functioning, in particular for occupations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Though elements of numerosity have been identified in some animals, complex MA is uniquely human. Several studies, using a variety of designs, have investigated the heritability of MA, and the extreme end...

An initial cognitive study of early learning of programming aimed to extract experimental test data to establish novices’ understanding process has been carried out by us [1]. This empirical study was inspired by the notion that different people bring different patterns of knowledge in any new learning process, and demonstrated that how each student tackles the problem in a different way based ...

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...