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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Students fail"”.
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Why do medical students fail? a study of 1st year medical students and the educational context
A third of medical students at Birmingham Medical School fail one or more first year exams. Alarm has been raised about the apparent over-representation of ethnic minority students amongst those who fail. In this case study I ask: 1. Is there a connection between students’ ethnicity and performance …
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Letting Your Students Fail: A Grounded Theory Study of Overcoming Failure Experiences in Undergraduate Experiential Education
This research aimed to understand how students overcome and learn from failure experiences in a non-clinical undergraduate health-related experiential education program. A constructivist grounded theory approach was used to address this question. In-depth interviews were conducted with ten previous …
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An ethnographic investigation into the development and trialing of more accessible text materials for second language teaching and learning in physical science
… is a second language for both teachers and students. The research is located in an interpretative ethnographic framework and the data gathered during the classroom-based trialing of the materials highlights the vital role of language in the teaching and learning of school science. An …
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Decreasing Homework Excuses and Increasing Homework Hand-Ins
… have experienced increased pressure to teach students a substantial amount of material in a short amount of time. Teachers assign homework in an effort to teach the required material effectively and efficiently, but this effort is thwarted as students often return with unfinished work. This …
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The Lack of Help Seeking Among At-Risk Undergraduate Students
… routinely offers a course with approximately 600 students. Each year approximately a sixth of those students fail the first exam. To increase the performance of at-risk students a mentoring program was created, but many did not participate. The purpose of this study is to identify factors that …
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Reconciling Life Balance: A Grounded Theory Study of Overcoming Failure
<p>Academic failure has been described as endemic in nursing education. Although, associate degree nursing programs graduate the largest number of nurses each year, the on-time graduation rate is 59%. Every semester students fail nursing courses and are required to successfully repeat the course …
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What is the BSN Student's Perception of Why a Nursing Course was Failed?
Nursing student success is important to students, faculty, institutions of higher education, and the healthcare needs in Texas. Despite recent research showing that cognitive indicators can predict student success, the use of these factors has not significantly decreased the number of courses …
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Women's and gender studies instruction : teaching to replace the Renaissance man in the face of conservatism
… a frivolous investment. At the same time, many students fail to understand the purpose or benefit of a WGS education while instructors struggle to find pedagogical works to utilize in their teaching. Although studies have offered insight into student experiences and learning outcomes in WGS …
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Predicting Graduation from Prior Academic Achievement, Attendance, and Behavior: A Quantitative Analysis
… study addressed three questions, which of the students included in this study dropped out of high school, how exclusionary discipline affected students' attendance at school and their ability to graduate. In addition, for the students who dropped out, what was their exclusionary discipline …
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The relationship of noncognitive variables and their contribution to attrition among health care specialists at Fort Sam Houston, TX
… Army National Guard and various international students in basic medical care, culminating in the possession of the EMT-B certification. The course is conducted in a stressful environment where students are required to be successful in both academic and nonacademic domains. Within the last …
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Understanding first year undergraduate achievement in a post-1992 university science department
… the under-researched theme of achievement among students in a post 1992 university in the UK. The findings are based on a case study of a cohort of first year (FY) undergraduates in a science department in a post 1992 university. Three key research approaches were deployed within this case study, …
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More than Money Matters: An Integrated Model of Graduate Student Persistence
… administrators, academic deans, faculty members, students, and families. In light of an alarming statistic that approximately 50% of all graduate students fail to complete their degree, there have been few studies to examine this phenomenon and no new models to explain the relationship between …
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The Sound of Fractions: teaching inherently abstract representations from an aural and embodied approach
… fractions, 1/5 is bigger than 1/6. When students fail to master the system of fractions by a certain age, the inherent difficulty of the concepts can become confounded with discouragement, boredom, and humiliation. Music, especially percussion, not only provides an engaging context for …
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Toward Understanding the Language Reclassification Experiences of Latino/a Learners with Disabilities: An Intersectional Approach
… both special education and ethnically diverse students receive a rigorous but developmentally appropriate education. Nevertheless, evidence to support claims that progress is being made toward equity for and inclusion of these marginalized groups is difficult to find. For example, in …
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Evaluating Technical Adequacy Features of Sentence Verification Technique as a General Outcome Measure of Content Knowledge
Once students have mastered the mechanics of reading, they are expected to learn new material by reading. This new material, however, becomes increasingly more complex as students enter upper elementary and especially middle and high school. If students fail to comprehend what they read, they risk …
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Effects of Administrator Implemented Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Grouping on Reading Achievement of Selected Sixth-Grade Students
… the average achievement score of high-school students on most standardized tests is lower now than it was a quarter of a century ago, and the majority of the brightest students fail to achieve according to their ability. A salient problem in educating pupils is that of attaining reading …
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Assessing the feasibility of a circular economy for 3D printed tactile educational aids for visually impaired (VI) students in India
Access to higher STEM education is limited to students with disabilities globally. The issue is particularly prevalent in countries like India where students are frequently advised against pursuing higher STEM education due to insufficient devices and tools in schools. The unavailability of …
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An Examination of Social Anxiety, Social Skills, Social Adjustment, and Self-Construal in Chinese and American Students at an American University
Research has shown that international students studying in the United States report significantly lower levels of social adjustment than American students. Cultural differences may contribute to this problem; however, social relationships between international students and American students lead to …
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Exploring the factors that contribute to high failure rate among final year students in public higher education institutions in the kingdom of eSwatini.
… (HEI) in the Kingdom of Eswatini there are students who fail their final year of study. The focus of this study is on students who failed their final year of study in HEI in Eswatini. The rationale is that a number of studies focus on failure and retention of first year students, yet …