Using data from a 1960s study of approximately 2,400 ethnically diverse schoolchildren (grades 1 – 6) in Hawaii, researchers compared teacher personality ratings of the students with videotaped ...

ongoing study of the emergence and effects of reading disabilities. The Shaywitzes found that students with dyslexia in 1st grade performed 1.5 standard deviations below typically developing ...

The study focuses on the “performance character strengths” of drive—defined as “the ability to apply oneself to a task and stick with it"— and prudence—defined as “the ability to ...