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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"High-achieving students"”.
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Beyond Academic Reputation: Factors that Influence the College of First Choice for High Achieving Students
… have investigated college choice factors for high-achieving students repeatedly cite academic reputation as one of the top indicators of choice but have not indicated why some high-achieving students choose to attend universities with a less prestigious reputation than the more highly …
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Flow within the engineering pipeline: Motivation of high -achieving students during the high school to college transition
… learning environment, making the transition from high school to college a critical period as students adjust to new learning environments. It is also a critical time for engineering programs as high-achieving students who drop out of engineering during this period are not likely to be …
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Exploring the biographies of high-achieving students: how to social environments and classroom experiences enable them to identify as 'good at maths'?
School students are more likely to enjoy and succeed in the compulsory, high-stakes subject of mathematics if they are able to identify as ‘good at maths’. This study investigated the manner in which students’ social and classroom experiences regulated how easily they could adopt this learner …
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Factors that influence traditional-age, high-achieving students to enroll at a research-extensive university in the Southern region of the United States
… to accurately explain the enrollment status of high-achieving freshmen based on the influence of selected demographic and academic characteristics. Since World War II, the need for students to obtain an outstanding postsecondary education in order to compete for the best positions in today's job …
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Grouping Structures of Gifted and High Achieving Middle School Students: Teacher Perceptions and Data Analysis of the Impact of Grouping
… grouping structures on middle school gifted and high achieving students, the researcher addresses the gap in literature relating to recent gifted grouping research in rural areas. The study took place in two middle schools of a rural school district in Georgia. A sequential explanatory design was …
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Participation in Post-Secondary Honors Programs: Predictors and Effects
… studies focused on 1) the academic outcomes of high-achieving students at a four-year, comprehensive research institution, and 2) the influence of achievement goal orientation on high-achieving community college students’ decision to participate in a post-secondary honors program. While …
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Impact of a national tuition scholarship policy on admissions and enrollment at university undergraduate programs.
… to grant full tuition scholarships to college students from the lowest fifty percent income households. I examine whether this meant that eligible undergraduate programs were able to recruit more low-income high-achieving students and whether there were any administrative responses in their …
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Implementing the flipped classroom in principles of biology to determine effects on student academic performance
… method. Moreover, this study examines if lower achieving students perform differently than high achieving students when the flipped model is implemented. Researchers used the 2015 fall semester as a control year and all topics in Principles of Biology at Texas Woman’s University were taught …
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Bringing the Best and Brightest to Teacher Education
… research study explored the lived experiences of students participating in a unique scholarship program for high achieving students in teacher education. The study focused on fellows participating in the Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program (METP), a full scholarship opportunity allowing top …
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Experiences Of High-Achieving High School Students Who Have Taken Multiple Concurrent Advanced Placement Courses
Problem: An increasing number of high-achieving American high school students are enrolling in multiple Advanced Placement (AP) courses. As a result, high schools face a growing need to understand the impact of taking multiple AP courses concurrently on the social-emotional lives of high-achieving …
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Characteristics of Effective Teaching of Eighth Grade Mathematics in Puerto Rico
… teacher and student behaviors in low and high achieving eighth grade classrooms. Four classrooms were selected for the study. Two were identified as having high achieving students; two as having low achieving students. Other selection factors included socio-economic status of students and …
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A workbook of exercises for following directions to be used with high achieving children in grades one, three and five
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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A Metacognition Training Manual for Elementary Students with Learning Disabilities in Resource Specialist Programs
… about one’s own thinking. It is a skill that high achieving students develop quickly and implicitly; however, low achieving students and students with learning disabilities often lack metacognition skills, negatively impacting their academic achievement. Explicit instruction in metacognition …
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Modeling Correlates of Problem-Solving Skills: Effects of Opportunity-to-Learn on the Attainment of Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Mathematics
… D*, was found to have a more positive effect on high-achieving students' proficiency of HOTS than on their lower-achieving peers.
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Becoming a successful student in pre-registration nurse education: A qualitative multiple case study
… however there are few studies that have explored students’ accounts of their own success. The aim of this study was to identify and explain the significance of factors that enable high-achieving student nurses to become successful on their programme and to develop a model of student success in …
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Essays in economics
… examines differences in the frequency with which students from different schools reach high levels of math achievement. Data from the American Mathematics Competitions is used to produce counts of high-scoring students from public U.S. high schools. High-achieving students are far from evenly …
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POSIT: Process Oriented Subtraction-Interface for Tutoring
… & Reiser, 1985) which focused on the tutoring of students in the context of problem solving, this system focuses on the tutoring of a cognitive skill-subtraction of whole-numbers. Because ACT* theory explicitly describes the interaction of declarative and procedural knowledge (procedural knowledge …
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Essays on Education Markets
… disparities in the matching markets of high school choice and college admissions. The first chapter, joint with Ph.D. students Victor Delgado and Rui Zeng, studies the spatial inequality issue in high school choice within the context of the centralized system of public high school …
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Computer-assisted Chapter 1 instruction
… of elementary educationally disadvantaged students. Specifically, this study determined the effects of CAI upon the academic performance of Chapter 1 sixth-grade students in reading and language arts. The sample consisted of 514 sixth-grade students from an eastern-USA LEA's Chapter 1 …
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An In-Depth Analysis of Students' Academic Retention Abilities in Traditional and Alternative Calendar Schools
… in education reform today. The need to help students retain more academic skills after summer vacation is one reason school districts are considering alternative calendars. A recent study by Nofsinger (1999) of elementary students used Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM) probes to measure …
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