We demonstrate how genetically informed designs can be applied to administrative exam data to study academic achievement. ACE mixture latent class models have been used with Year 6 and 9 exam data for seven cohorts of Polish students which include 24,285 pairs of twins. Depending on a learning domain and classroom environment history, from 58% to 88% of variance in exam results is attributable ...

Five hundred and forty five Chinese students participated in study aimed to examine multi-dimensionality of creativity self-efficacy and its contextual (i.e., classroom environment) correlates. Nearly all aspects in the What Happens in the Classroom Scale (e.g., student cohesiveness, investigation, and task orientation) were found to have significant, positive correlations with all subscales of...

AIMS Genotype-environment correlation refers to the extent to which individuals are exposed to environments as a function of their genetic propensities. These correlations are important in the study of psychopathology because they identify environments that may maintain the expression of underlying genetic liabilities for a disorder. The present study examined the correlation between genetic li...