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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Low achievers"”.
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PLANNING TO ASSIST LOW ACHIEVERS: PERSPECTIVES OF INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERS AND TEACHERS
… strategies? Do students who are labeled as low-achievers receive the same opportunities of exploration as those who are not? With Karl Marx’s conflict theory along with the study of various societal and psychological theories by Donald T. Campbell as the foundation for this study, …
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Ability Tracking and Class Mobility in High School Mathematics: The Case of Low Achievers
… Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 and follow-ups to model classroom selection and education production. This paper will focus only on the causes and effects of tracking on students who were tracked as low-ability in eighth grade. From this, we can see how many students, if any, switched …
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An Investigation of the Attitudes of Students, Teachers and Parents Toward Achievers and Low Achievers at the Grade Seven Level
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Personal Orientations Related to Achievement Motivation: A Study of High and Low Achievers in the St. Thomas/st. John, Virgin Islands School District (Affects, Elementary)
… motivational factors of achievement for high and low achievers within the St. Thomas/St. John, Virgin Islands school district.
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The effect of supplemental homework tasks involving referential questions on learners' target language linguistic output and accuracy
… on these gain scores for significance. A follow-up study examined the performance of selected high and low achievers within groups and across levels on the same variables. Finally, an attitude questionnaire was administered to the treatment groups at the end of the treatment period. Its …
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A Case Study of How a Large Multilevel EFL Writing Class Experiences and Perceives Multiple Interaction Activities
… needs in improving their writing performance. Low achievers have difficulties in keeping up with competent writers in learning writing skills while advanced students complain of their learning too little from the class. This research, based on the activity system model proposed by Engestrom …
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Private tutoring and its impact on students' academic achievement, formal schooling, and educational inequality in Korea
… positive effects are detected mostly in the low-ability group, which means that low achievers pay more attention to lessons in schools if they participate in private tutoring. These results imply that private tutoring improves the overall learning environment in formal schooling, which in …
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A comparison of achievement-related parenting styles for children with average or low achievement and with learning disabilities
… 237 students were divided into average and low achievers and those with learning disabilities. The students completed the Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory (Schaefer, 1965) and their group scores on the three demandingness (Lax Discipline, Enforcement of Discipline, and …
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Values and Academic Achievement among Rural Indian High School Students in North Dakota
… students.</p><p>Comparisons between high and low achieving Indians were made. It was discovered that character trait preferences of high achieving Indians were more closely aligned with those of their teachers than were character trait preferences of low achieving Indians. High achieving …
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The Relationship Between Parental Involvement and the Academic Success of Fifth Grade Students
… students were divided into two groups—high and low achievers based on their scores on the NYS Math and ELA tests. High achievement was defined as a score of 3 or 4 and low achievement was defined as a score of 1 or 2. Surveys were sent home to parents of these students to collect information …
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Construyendo la educación: infraestructura como determinante del rendimiento académico en el Perú 2000-2015
… In this regard, results will be presented following estimates of static and dynamic panel data, to address the effects of these variables over time. Among the main findings, it was observed in the estimation of static panel data and dynamic panel data that variables such as poor level of …
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An investigation of the effects grade retention has on students' academic performance
… in academic performance than students who were low-achievers but promoted instead and those placed in a transition class. In addition the findings showed that males, whether retained or not, had higher mathematical scores than females, but there was no difference between males and females in …
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Examining the Influence of Negative Labeling on Educational Aspirations
… others (teachers, parents, and friends) and lowered educational aspirations net of delinquency. Specifically, negative labeling by teachers has the most profound effect upon low achievers, while negative labeling by parents and friends has the greatest impact on middle achievers. Implications …
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Leadership Behaviors that Improved Student Achievement in Three Selected Georgia High Schools
… the data collection and data analysis were as follows: (1) high expectations, (2) developing relationships, (3) identifying the right personnel, (4) setting achievement goals, (5) using data to guide instruction and decision making, (6) assisting low achievers, (7) involving all stakeholders, (8) …
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An In-Depth Analysis of Students' Academic Retention Abilities in Traditional and Alternative Calendar Schools
… groups of students (i.e., high, middle, and low achievers) gained more benefit from traditional or alternative calendars. Further, the researcher compared subsamples of third-grade students with comparable achievement levels to determine if results from an earlier study were valid. Results of …
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The use of graphing and an effort and achievement rubric to increase students' multiplication fact accuracy and fluency
… Students were separated into a group of five low achievers and five high achievers and data was grouped according to grades on the quizzes, the time it took to finish the quizzes, and digits correct per minute. All data was analyzed by finding the mean of the quizzes to eliminate …
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Formative assessment: the effect on academic achievement and attitudes toward science
… was a narrowing of the gap between high and low achievers which may demonstrate a relationship between achievement and formative assessment. Most results of the attitude and causal attribution surveys were not statistically significant. The attitude survey showed a possible relationship …
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Issues in the Interpretation of PISA in Ireland: A Study of the Content and Design of PISA with Comparative Analyses of the Junior Certificate Examinations and TIMSS (1 Volume)
… limited utility in describing performance at the low end of the achievement distribution. Analyses of non-response in the Irish datasets for PISA 2000 and 2003 reveal significant bias arising from student (but not school) non-response. This finding renders claims made by the OECD and Irish media …
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The effects of cooperative learning on the spelling achievement of intermediate elementary students
… groups of students who were high, average, and low achievers. The study attempted to determine, over 7 weeks, any treatment effects resulting from students being cooperatively grouped for spelling instruction. A student's level of achievement and type of grouping for spelling instruction were …
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