INDEX

• academic admissions tests see standardized academic admissions tests
• academic self-concept
• academic self-esteem
• active study strategies
• American Psychological Association

• cognitive evaluation theory
• cognitive load theory
• cognitive styles
• college admission test scores
  • aptitude test
  • coached vs. uncoached students
  • coaching time
  • commercial coaching programs
  • pre-test–post-test design
  • SAT coaching
  • standard error of measurement
  • standardized testing
• commercial coaching programs
• Common Core educational standards
• constructivist learning philosophy

• discovery learning
• Dunn learning-styles model

• Educational Testing Service (ETS)

• factor analysis
• foresight bias
• free recall tests

• Gardner’s eight intelligences
• Gardner’s model
• general intelligence
• general mental ability (g)
• global self-esteem
• Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
• Gregorc’s model

• hemisphericity
  • brain-imaging research
  • creativity, hemispheric dominance
  • dichotic listening studies
  • gifted vs. average students’ brain
  • holistic processing
  • language and logical analysis
  • language-based hemisphere
  • language tasks
  • lateral eye movements monitoring
  • learning-disabled students
  • left hemisphere damage
  • musical abilities
  • nonverbal center
  • nonverbal tasks
  • Paul Broca’s nineteenth-century report
  • positive and negative emotions
  • right-brain–left-brain dichotomy
  • right-brain training
  • right hemisphere damage
  • spatial tasks
  • speech production and comprehension
  • split-brain operations
  • verbal tasks
  • visual field studies
  • visual–spatial abilities
• hindsight bias
• human intelligence
  • brain damage
  • central common element
  • cognitive ability tests
  • common verbal influences
  • definition
  • factor analysis
  • Gardner’s eight intelligences
  • Gardner’s model
  • general mental ability (g)
  • IQ scores
  • localized neural processing
  • multiple intelligence model
  • real-life assessment
  • self-report measures
  • spatial ability tests
  • types of
• human short-term memory

• inquiry learning
• interteaching
• intrinsic motivation

• Law School Admission Test (LSAT)
• learning styles
  • ability measures
  • active vs. reflective learning activities
  • auditory/visual learning style
  • cognitive styles
  • concrete vs. abstract experiences
  • definition
  • Dunn learning-styles model
  • Gregorc’s model
  • learning style matching
  • meta-analysis
  • modality strengths and weaknesses
  • reliability and validity
  • sensing learning style
  • tailoring teaching methods
• lecturing
  • active learning approaches
  • advantage of
  • aptitude–treatment interaction
  • criticism
  • definition
  • vs. discussion methods
  • vs. group work
  • information-processing research
  • interactive elements
  • interactive lecture courses
  • interteaching
  • limitations
  • in medical training
  • meta analysis
  • in national math and science exam
  • periodic two-minute pauses
  • presentation quality
  • problem-based learning
  • small-group method
  • STEM courses
  • step-by-step guidance
  • student-centered approaches
  • students’ motivation and participation
  • vs. team-learning course
• longer-term reward programs
• LSAT see Law School Admission Test (LSAT)

• Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
• meta-analysis
  • learning styles
  • lecturing
  • minimally guided teaching strategies
  • multiple-choice exams
  • PowerPoint
  • rewards
  • self-esteem
  • standardized academic admissions tests
• minimally guided teaching strategies
  • active learning
  • cognitive load theory
  • computerized tutoring program
  • constructivist educational philosophy
  • constructivist learning philosophy
  • critics of
  • discovery learning
  • vs. explicitly guided techniques
  • inquiry learning
  • long-term memory
  • meta-analysis
  • misconceptions
  • novel material learning
  • primary knowledge
  • problem-based learning
  • problem-solving strategy
  • risk of
  • unguided instruction
• multiple-choice exams
  • advantage
  • answer-changing beliefs and effects
  • of basic skills
  • Bloom’s dimensions
  • vs. completion test
  • vs. essay exams
  • factor analysis
  • first instinct fallacy
  • free-response items
  • guidelines
  • limitations
  • measurement error
  • and open-ended tests
  • testing effect
  • verbal aptitude tests
• multiple intelligence model
• multitasking
  • academic passages reading
  • academic performance
  • in actual classroom
  • age
  • brain functions
  • capacity-sharing models
  • cognitive bottlenecks
  • college students
  • computerized laboratory tasks
  • cost of
  • declarative memory
  • definition
  • effects of television watching
  • habit memory
  • instant messaging
  • negative impact
  • vs. non-multitaskers
  • task switching
  • texting effects

• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

• open-ended tests
• overconfidence

• passive study techniques
• performance underestimation
• PowerPoint
  • advantages
  • bulleted lists
  • vs. chalkboard
  • color and transition features
  • computerized animation
  • halo effect
  • meta-analysis
  • non-PowerPoint lectures
  • positive learning effects
  • recommendations
  • vs. traditional teaching method
  • and transparencies approach
  • for undergraduate students
• practice testing
• problem-based learning

• rereading
  • active study strategies
  • benefits of
  • comprehension reading ability
  • on delayed test performance
  • direct factual information testing
  • effectiveness of
  • elaborative interrogation
  • five-minute reading sessions
  • free recall tests
  • immediate rereading vs. delay between readings
  • long-term memory
  • and passive study techniques
  • positive effect
  • practice testing
  • short-answer test
  • test-enhanced learning
• rewards
  • cognitive evaluation theory
  • detrimental effects
  • impact of
  • intrinsic motivation
  • longer-term reward programs
  • meta-analysis
  • negative effects of
  • personality characteristics
  • self-motivation
  • self-reported interest
  • students with autonomy orientation
  • students with control orientation
  • tangible rewards
  • vs. unrewarded participants
  • verbal rewards

• SAT coaching
• science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses
• self-assessment
• self-esteem
  • academic achievement tests
  • academic performance
  • academic self-esteem
  • assessment
  • definition
  • exam performance
  • global self-esteem
  • longitudinal methods
  • meta-analysis
  • methodological flaws
  • personality variables
  • structural equation modeling
  • variation in
• self-judgment accuracy
• small-group learning
• standardized ability tests
  • average group differences
  • average observed differences
  • brain differences
  • cultural bias
  • differential item functioning
  • factor analysis
  • internal consistency analysis
  • measurement error
  • predictive bias
  • random and systematic error
  • score gaps
  • statistical strategies
  • test bias
  • test fairness
  • Type I errors
• standardized academic admissions tests
  • academic performance
  • admissions criteria
  • advantage
  • correlation coefficients
  • disadvantages
  • GMAT
  • GRE scores
  • LSAT
  • MCAT
  • meta-analysis
  • psychological assessments
  • range restriction
  • reliability of measures
  • SAT scores
  • SAT validity coefficient
  • socioeconomic status (SES)
  • validity coefficients
• Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
• student-centered approaches
• student-centered learning
• subject-specific academic self-concept

• tailoring teaching methods
• test-enhanced learning
• test-optional policies

• US National Education Standards

• verbal aptitude tests
• verbal rewards

• Western educational methods