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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Students success"”.
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Equity in Education: Transforming Urban Middle Schools for Black Students Success
… that shows there is an achievement gap for Black students compared to their peers. While the achievement gap reflects the educational disparities among student groups, it is closely linked to an opportunity gap which refers to unequal access to economic and social resources creating barriers to …
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Promoting Parental Involvement and Students Success in School: What Teachers Can Do
… education strongly correlates with student success in school (Abel, 2012; Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler, 1997; Zhan, 2005). Despite the benefits of parent involvement (PI), a variety of factors limit and discourage parents from taking an active role in their child’s education. This analytic …
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The Pathways of Latina Students' Success in Math Education: A Narrative Study
<p>Many Latinx students are failing despite numerous sacrifices, personal goals, and determination. Latinx students endure a range of challenges in and outside of school that significantly impact their identity, mental health, and academic achievement. Many factors impede Latinx students’ success, …
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Do Academic Characteristics Predict Chinese Private University Students’ Success in English Language Testing?
… NCEE English score, the number of tests taken by students, provincial origin, gender, and major. These indicators all affected the odds of students’ passing the CET-4, as well as the highest scores they could receive. However, studies lent some support to indirect effect between English academic …
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Factors that influence transfer students' success in Iowa State University's journalism and communication program
… the demographic and academic profiles of students who transferred to the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University. The three-part questionnaire sent out in an e-mail census of all transfer students in the School by the end of AY 2005-2006 also assessed the …
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A standards-based grading model to predict students' success in a first-year engineering course
… methods, it is possible to identify at-risk students early in the semester and inform both the instructors and the students. While some universities have started to use standards-based grading, which has educational advantages over common score-based grading, at–risk prediction models have …
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Pre-Collegiate Factors Influencing Students' Success in their First University Mathematics Course: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study
… C, and sex on the initial level of mathematics students' enrolled in and the grade earned in their first university mathematics course. The qualitative inquiry obtained the students' points of view on the transition from high school math to university mathematics and the influence of their past …
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The Efficacy of Residential Learning Communities on First Generation, First-Year College Students' Success at a Rural Regional University
… of residential learning communities on the success of first-generation first-year students. Using the theoretical framework of Tinto’s Conceptual Schema this study looked at the social and academic integration factors of living in a residential learning community through fall-to-fall …
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The impact of the pre-college high school program AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) on Millville Senior High School students' success in college
… The study investigated the attitudes of students who had participated in AVID while attending Millville Senior High School in Millville, NJ and are now on course to complete a Bachelor's Degree. This study utilized a mixed method design to collect data. The perception survey contained 30 …
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Application of statistics to the study of cognitive processes in mathematics education : a case study of theoretical thinking as a factor of students' success in linear algebra
Factors influencing students' success in mathematics in general and linear algebra in particular are examined, drawing on the literature of mathematics and science education. Based on the findings from a sample of 14 high achieving university undergraduate students, certain features of theoretical …
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Prediction of Community College Students' Success in Developmental Math with Traditional Classroom, Computer-Based On-Campus and Computer-Based at a Distance Instruction Using Locus of Control, Math Anxiety and Learning Style
… individual student differences and academic success in three pedagogical methods (traditional classroom, computer-aided instruction (CAI) in an on-campus setting, and CAI in a distance education setting) for developmental mathematics classes at the community college level. Locus of control, …
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Comparison of the relationship of academic success to self-concept, social acceptance and perceived social acceptance for hearing, hard of hearing and deaf adolescents in a mainstream setting.
… to contribute to deaf and hard of hearing students' success in mainstream settings: self-concept, social acceptance, and perceived social acceptance. Twenty-five hearing, five deaf, and five hard of hearing junior high school students participated in this study. Students completed three …
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Parental Engagement For Academic Sucess Of Students
… as a means to reinforce parent involvement for students' success.</p>
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Individual, family, social support and stress factors affecting university students' generalised self-efficacy beliefs
Students' success at university is influenced by their generalised self-ecfficacy beliefs. Previous studies compared these beliefs to individual variables derived from self-concept, family, stress, and self-support research. An holistic approach in this present study was used with data collected …
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An Evaluation of the Information Retrieval Skills of Students With and Without Learning Handicaps Using Printed and Electronic Encyclopedias
… technology and focused specifically on students' natural information retrieval skills by (a) comparing student use of printed and electronic forms of an encyclopedia, (b) examining the effects of menu or command driven interfaces and task difficulty on students' success of retrieval of …
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The Role of Family in the Success of African American College Students
… family in the life of African American college students at two predominately White institutions. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 38 African American college students and members of their families. The results revealed eight factors that influenced students' success and their …
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The Use of Vocabulary in the Mathematics Classroom
… vocabulary development strategies will increase students success in completing mathematical word problems. It begins with a Literature Review which finds that the use of vocabulary in the mathematics classroom can help students gain a stronger reading comprehension, which in turn helps them to …
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