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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Richard E. Snow's Remaking of the Concept of Aptitude and Multidimensional Test Validity: Introduction to the Special Issue.
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Shavelson, Richard J.; Roeser, Robert W.; Kupermintz, Haggai; Lau, Shun; Ayala, Carlos; Haydel, Angela; Schultz, Susan; Gallagher, Larry; Quihuis, Gisell – Educational Assessment, 2002
Describes some of the "big ideas" of Richard E. Snow about aptitude, person-situation transaction, and test validity. Also describes the design of a high school study undertaken to explore some of Snow's ideas further and introduces the articles of this special issue. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude, Educational Theories
Cognitive Abilities and Motivational Processes in High School Students' Situational Engagement and Achievement in Science.
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Lau, Shun; Roeser, Robert W. – Educational Assessment, 2002
Building on R. Snow's two pathways to achievement outcomes (1989), examined how cognitive and motivational factors associated with the performance and commitment pathways respectively contributed to prediction of outcomes in science for 491 high school students. Results are consistent with Snow's conjecture that factors related to both pathways…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, High School Students, High Schools, Prediction
On Motivation, Ability, and the Perceived Situation in Science Test Performance: A Person-Centered Approach with High School Students.
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Haydel, Angela M.; Roeser, Robert W. – Educational Assessment, 2002
Studied between-group differences in test-related perceptions, engagement, and performance, and within-group predictors of science performance among groups of high school students with different motivation patterns. Results for 403 high school students are discussed in terms of R. Snow's (1994) theory of aptitude complexes and their relation to…
Descriptors: Aptitude, High School Students, High Schools, Individual Differences
The Concept of Aptitude and Multidimensional Validity Revisited.
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Roeser, Robert W.; Shavelson, Richard J.; Kupermintz, Haggai; Lau, Shun; Ayala, Carlos; Haydel, Angela; Schultz, Susan; Gallagher, Larry; Quihuis, Gisell – Educational Assessment, 2002
Provides an overview of the approach of Richard E. Snow to the concept of aptitude and multidimensional validity and summarizes the studies in this special issue. Overall, studies confirmed the multidimensional structure of science achievement scores, the validity of some key motivational constructs for predicting achievement, and other ideas…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Prediction, Student Motivation