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  2. Self-efficacy - Wikipedia

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    Researchers found that there was a direct correlation between students' self-efficacy and their own writing apprehension, essay performance, and perceived usefulness of writing. As the researchers suggest, this study is important because it showed how important it is for teachers to teach skills and also to build confidence in their students ...

  3. Religiosity and intelligence - Wikipedia

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    An experiment in the study found that participants moved towards greater belief in a god after writing essays about how intuition yielded a right answer or reflection yielded a wrong answer (and conversely, towards atheism if primed to think about either a failure of intuition or success of reflection).

  4. International English Language Testing System - Wikipedia

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    International English Language Testing System (IELTS / ˈ aɪ. ɛ l t s /) [6] is an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non-native English language speakers. It is jointly managed by the British Council, IDP and Cambridge English, [6] and was established in 1989. IELTS is one of the major English-language tests ...

  5. Rokeach Value Survey - Wikipedia

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    The task for participants in the survey is to arrange the 18 terminal values, followed by the 18 instrumental values, into an order "of importance to YOU, as guiding principles in YOUR life". [1]: 27 The RVS has been studied in the context of personality psychology, behavior, marketing, social structure and cross-cultural studies.

  6. Reading - Wikipedia

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    Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch. [1] [2] [3] [4]For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.

  7. Success - Wikipedia

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    The criteria for success depend on context, and may be relative to a particular observer or belief system. One person might consider a success what another person considers a failure, particularly in cases of direct competition or a zero-sum game. Similarly, the degree of success or failure in a situation may be differently viewed by distinct ...

  8. Backing Your Beliefs: Socially Responsible ETFs Are on ... - AOL

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    In an economic downturn, you might expect risk-averse investors to stick to tried-and-true investments boasting strong financial fundamentals. But there are signs that a small but growing number ...

  9. Performative utterance - Wikipedia

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    Searle further claimed that performatives are what he calls declarations; this is a technical notion of Searle's account: according to his conception, an utterance is a declaration, if "the successful performance of the speech act is sufficient to bring about the fit between words and world, to make the propositional content true."