Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can\'t Stop Talking pdfdrive com

In 1995, for example, the first year the TIMSS was given
: “Pursuing Excellence: A Study
of U.S. Eighth-Grade Mathematics and Science Teaching, Learning Curriculum, and
Achievement in International Context, Initial Findings from the Third International
Mathematics and Science Study,” U.S. Department of Education, National Center for
Education Statistics, Pursuing Excellence, NCES 97-198 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government
Printing Office, 1996).

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27.
 
In 2007, when researchers measured
: TIMSS Executive Summary. The nations whose
students fill out more of the questionnaire also tend to have students who do well on the
TIMSS test: Erling E. Boe et al., “Student Task Persistence in the Third International
Mathematics and Science Study: A Major Source of Achievement Differences at the National,
Classroom and Student Levels” (Research Rep. No. 2002-TIMSS1) (Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education, Center for Research and Evaluation in Social
Policy). Note that this study was based on 1995 data.
28.
 
cross-cultural psychologist Priscilla Blinco
: Priscilla Blinco, “Task Persistence in Japanese
Elementary Schools,” in 
Windows on Japanese Education
, edited by Edward R. Beauchamp
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991). Malcolm Gladwell wrote about this study in his
book 
Outliers
.

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CHAPTER 9: WHEN SHOULD YOU ACT MORE EXTROVERTED THAN YOU REALLY ARE?
1.
 
Meet Professor Brian Little
: The stories about Brian Little throughout this chapter come
from numerous telephone and e-mail interviews with the author between 2006 and 2010.
2.
 
Hippocrates, Milton, Schopenhauer, Jung
: Please see A Note on the Words 
Introvert
and
Extrovert
for more on this point.
3.