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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Academic abilities"”.
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An Examination of Student-Ahtletes' Perceptions of Their Academic Abilities
… athletes are not as capable of performing well academically as their non-athlete counterparts; they are “dumb jocks”. Do athletes feel that others have lower expectations of them academically? This is important because previous research in education has shown that expectations play a role in …
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Sociocognitive and socioemotive factors associated with early academic abilities in preschool children in Costa Rica
… providing a multi-report, multi-method model of academic and socio-emotional preparation in preschool children that integrates bodies of previous research that have been conducted primarily in isolation. The main purpose is to test a comprehensive model of self-regulation and its links to moral …
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Impact of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and its Treatment on Social-Emotional, Intellectual, and Academic Abilities
… be at risk for treatment-related cognitive and academic deficits, although many specific treatment regimens remain to be investigated. Purpose: The present investigation was designed to examine 76 pediatric patients with ALL who were randomized to receive 1g/m² or 2g/m² of intravenous …
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Faith-Based Institutions: A Quantitative Study at Two Seventh-day Adventist Institutions of Higher Learning in North America
… students' overall collegial relationships and academic abilities. Since 1976, there has been an increase of 19.1% marginalized students enrolled in college. For these students, a sense of belonging is believed to aid in improved collegial relationships and better academic performance. According …
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The vocational interests of Namibian grade 10 learners
… on grounds of gender, geographical setting, and academic performance. Clear differences in interest were found on most of the scales between males and females, between those from urban and rural areas, between learners from different geographical regions, and also between learners with different …
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Do Parent and Teacher Ratings of Behavior Measure What They Are Intended to Measure?
… current research was to examine and compare the abilities of intellectual, academic, attentional, and executive skills to account for variance in parent and teacher ratings of behavior across two pediatric age groups in a clinical setting. Additionally, the study compared the relationships …
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Individualized Instruction Strategies in Mainstream Classrooms: Including Students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
… made up of students with a broad spectrum of abilities, and it is the teacher’s job to meet the needs of those students.</p> <p>Strategies addressed in this review include animal assisted therapy, antecedent, peer mediated, and self-management approaches. These strategies have been shown to …
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The Relationship Between Academic Performance and Elementary Student and Teacher Attitudes Towards Departmentalizing
… placed on American public schools to increase academic achievement, some schools have begun to reorganize instructional environments in an effort to improve student outcomes. The current study examined one such elementary school that implemented a departmentalized model of instruction in fourth …
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A Study to Determine what Difference, If Any, Exist when Comparing the Achievement Scores of Two Groups of Second Grade Students, One Grouped Homogeneously and One Grouped Heterogeneously, in Three Skill Areas--Reading, Math and Spelling--As Measured by the Standford Achievement Tests
… (i.e., were assumed to have similar academic abilities) and the second grade students who were heterogeneously grouped (i.e., were grouped according to no particular criteria) when compared to their first grade scores. These two groups of second graders, each consisting of four …
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Culture Shock and its Effect on English Language Learners
… affected in school. Culture shock impedes ELLs’ academic abilities. This problem emerges from the growing number of ELLs in our country today. This number will continue to grow which should motivate teachers to become more informed on the problems that our ELLs face. The literature suggests that …
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Promoting Academic Growth for ELLs with Socioemotional Learning
… This problem affects ELLs mentally as well as academically. There needs to be a focus on the academic aspect with support of the mental aspect. Without proper support, ELLS social and emotional health declines and their academic performance is not showcased to its fullest extent. Teachers are …
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The Lived Experiences of First-Year, First Semester Honors College Students Placed on Academic Probation
… aged Honors College students who were placed on academic probation at the conclusion of the first semester and how they perceive their current circumstances, reasons for their inability to meet the honors requirements, and future academic pursuits. A comprehensive literature review was performed, …
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The Stares to Achievement: African American Youth Resist Risk and Rhetoric to Achieve Academic Success
For African American students, academic achievement is often discussed in terms of student deficits and cultural deficiencies. Citing high dropout rates and the achievement gap, focus is often centered on understanding African American achievement in terms of school failures. As such, African …
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Three essays in economics
… Students understand that fraternities value both academic ability and “socializing values”, and will screen out students with lesser academic abilities unless they have especially high socializing values. Students also understand that firms will see whether or not they are in a fraternity, and …
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Video-Theatre and self-esteem
… The students were a well-blended mix of academic abilities and backgrounds; The Piers-Harris Scale was administered prior to, and immediately following, the class projects, which took place over a six week period. There were no significant differences between the self-esteem scores of the …
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Using Discourse to Improve the Quality of Student Talk and Historical Argumentative Writing
… in ninth-grade US History classrooms with academically diverse students. More specifically, the study captured how students engaged in argumentative discourse and historical thinking using two different discourse structures. The study used a cross-case analysis (Yin, 2018) to compare the …
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The Effect of Social Media Use on Academic Procrastination
… study investigated the effect of TikTok use on academic procrastination among undergraduate students, focusing on the mediating roles of academic self-efficacy and attentional control. TikTok’s popularity among young adults was driven by its short-form videos, infinite scrolling, and algorithmic …
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Response to Intervention (RtI) Stakeholder Perceptions in the Schools of Southern Illinois
… identifying students with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) in the reauthorization of IDEA, 2004. RtI requires stakeholders to significantly change how all students are taught. Accepting the changes accompanying educational reforms has been challenging for educators and RtI is no exception. …
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