Trait Complex, Cognitive Ability, and Domain Knowledge Predictors of Baccalaureate Success, STEM Persistence, and Gender Differences

Autor/inn/en	Ackerman, Phillip L.; Kanfer, Ruth; Beier, Margaret E.
Titel	Trait Complex, Cognitive Ability, and Domain Knowledge Predictors of Baccalaureate Success, STEM Persistence, and Gender Differences
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Psychology, 105 (2013) 3, S.911-927 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0663
DOI	10.1037/a0032338
Schlagwörter	Cognitive Ability; Gender Differences; Academic Achievement; Educational Psychology; STEM Education; Academic Persistence; Undergraduate Students; Graduation; Affective Behavior; Predictor Variables; Individual Differences; Personality Traits; Self Concept; Student Motivation; Validity; Grades (Scholastic); Advanced Placement; Tests; Scores; Mastery Learning; Profiles; Mathematics Skills; Science Achievement; Self Concept Measures; Regression (Statistics); Georgia; Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire; Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire; NEO Five Factor Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Denkfähigkeit; Geschlechterkonflikt; Schulleistung; Erziehungspsychologie; Pädagogische Psychologie; STEM; Abschluss; Graduierung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Prädiktor; Individueller Unterschied; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Selbstkonzept; Schulische Motivation; Gültigkeit; Notenspiegel; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	Prediction of academic success at postsecondary institutions is an enduring issue for educational psychology. Traditional measures of high-school grade point average and high-stakes entrance examinations are valid predictors, especially of 1st-year college grades, yet a large amount of individual-differences variance remains unaccounted for. Studies of individual trait measures (e.g., personality, self-concept, motivation) have supported the potential for broad predictors of academic success, but integration across these approaches has been challenging. The current study tracks 589 undergraduates from their 1st semester through attrition or graduation (up to 8 years beyond their first semester). Based on an integrative trait-complex approach to assessment of cognitive, affective, and conative traits, patterns of facilitative and impeding roles in predicting academic success were predicted. We report on the validity of these broad trait complexes for predicting academic success (grades and attrition rates) in isolation and in the context of traditional predictors and indicators of domain knowledge (Advanced Placement [AP] exams). We also examine gender differences and trait complex by gender interactions for predicting college success and persistence in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Inclusion of trait-complex composite scores and average AP exam scores raised the prediction variance accounted for in college grades to 37%, a marked improvement over traditional prediction measures. Math/Science Self-Concept and Mastery/Organization trait complex profiles were also found to differ between men and women who had initial STEM major intentions but who left STEM for non-STEM majors. Implications for improving selection and identification of students at-risk for attrition are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01