Noncognitive predictors of intelligence and academic achievement: an important role of confidence
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Article Title | Noncognitive predictors of intelligence and academic achievement: an important role of confidence |
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ERA Journal ID | 6553 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Stankov, Lazar |
Journal Title | Personality and Individual Differences |
Journal Citation | 55 (7), pp. 727-732 |
Number of Pages | 6 |
Year | 2013 |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
ISSN | 0191-8869 |
1873-3549 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2013.07.006 |
Web Address (URL) | http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0191886913002833/1-s2.0-S0191886913002833-main.pdf?_tid=2ad4e14e-78c4-11e7-b4d4-00000aacb35e&acdnat=1501817140_c78e256aaa6a087333848abdf823bad4 |
Abstract | Recent evidence about the relationship between cognitive tests and psychological noncognitive variables is reviewed. Noncognitive measures can be ordered with respect to their predictive validity. Many are poor predictors of intelligence and achievement. Measures of rationality, self-assessment of intelligence, Openness to Experience and self-concept correlate up to 35 with cognitive performance. Some domain-specific self-beliefs (self-efficacy and anxiety) have correlations with appropriate achievement tests that can reach 45. The best predictors of any kind of cognitive performance are measures of confidence (frequently reported correlations of 45 and above) that can capture a major part of predictive validity of the three self-beliefs. The role of self-beliefs has attracted much interest in education but their role in predicting performance on tests of fluid intelligence is likely to be low. However, self-beliefs and confidence in particular may prove to be the most potent noncognitive influences on the development of acculturated knowledge that is captured by measures of crystallized intelligence. |
Keywords | confidence; noncognitive constructs; predicting achievement; predicting intelligence |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 529999. Other psychology not elsewhere classified |
399999. Other education not elsewhere classified | |
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Byline Affiliations | University of Western Sydney |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q4590/noncognitive-predictors-of-intelligence-and-academic-achievement-an-important-role-of-confidence
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