Individuals’ achievement goals are known to influence learning behaviors and academic achievement. However, prior research also indicates that undergraduates’ achievement goals for psychology coursework vary from assignment to assignment. The effect of stability of achievement goals on learning behaviors and outcomes has yet to be explored. This study examined how adolescents’ achievement goals...

T HE HISTORY OF surgery at The New York Hospital, the second oldest hospital in the United States, reflects the evolution of surgery in America and is marked by some of the most extraordinary achievements in medicine. The New York Hospital was the cradle of early surgical developments and instruction in America, earning a worldwide reputation for excellence and innovation. With the affiliation ...

A need for evidence-based and multidisciplinary research to study the effects of the interaction of school environmental conditions on student achievement" (2016). Architectural Engineering-Faculty Publications. Paper 94.

The purpose of this review is to document the directions and recent progress in our understanding of the motivational dynamics of school achievement. Based on the accumulating research it is concluded that the quality of student learning as well as the will to continue learning depends closely on an interaction between the kinds of social and academic goals students bring to the classroom, the ...

Scholastic achievement has become an index of child’s future in this highly competitive world.Unrecognized and unresolved, scholastic backwardness has a lifelong impact on the child and adolescent, affecting school completion, higher education, interpersonal relationships, prospects foremployment, marriage etc. Awareness of the varying causes, methods of presentation and the principles of manag...

to obtain the LRCP diploma which, when added to his MRCS (Eng), enabled him to qualify as a doctor. So much is known and so much has been written about this man's extraordinary achievements on the cricket field that it is not surprising that relatively little is known of his medical career, which provided a stability to his family life in Gloucestershire from 1879 until the end of the century. ...

Constructing a rigorous identification strategy based on a unique educational reform involving preference-based random assignment of students to different middle schools in Beijing, this paper examines how school and teacher characteristics affect student academic performance. Results show that school effects matter for the test scores on the High School Entrance Exam. We identify the role of t...

A field experiment was performed offshore Cassino Beach, Southern Brazil. In this area mud deposits were observed, mainly originated from the Patos Lagoon. Episodically, and associated with storm waves able to transport the mud from offshore to the beach, the usual sandy beach is covered by mud. This is a unique process along the Brazilian coastline, and the field experiment aimed to record the...

The ribosome is one of the main antibiotic targets in the cell. Recent years brought important insights into the mode of interaction of antibiotics with the ribosome and mechanisms of antibiotic action. Ribosome crystallography provided a detailed view of the interactions between antibiotics and rRNA. Advances in biochemical techniques let us better understand how the binding of small organic m...

In February 1991, the European Society for Engineering and Medicine was founded in Nice, France, after consultation with some European Societies, to assure fruitful cooperation. This paper describes the objectives of ESEM and the historical context; its position with respect to related European and national societies will be explained. The internal organisation of ESEM reflects its intention to...