BACKGROUND The seat selection and classroom dynamics may have mutual influence on the student performance and participation in both assigned and random seating arrangement. PURPOSE The aim of the study was to understand the influence of seat selection on educational achievement. METHODS The seating positions of the medical students were recorded on an architectural plan during each class se...

While the inquiry approach to science teaching has been widely recommended as an epistemic mechanism to promote deep content understanding, there is also increased expectation that process and other transferable skills should be integral part of science pedagogy. To test the hypothesis that coupling process skills to content teaching impacts academic success measures, we meta-analyzed twenty-on...

The purpose of this action research was to examine the impacts Understanding by Design (UbD) Model on class ten student's achievement in chemistry. study population comprises students 10 Mendrelgang Central School. A sample 62 students: 22 boys and 40 girls, drawn using purposive sampling technique. participants were divided into two groups, control experimental group. pretest-posttest group de...

Today in multilingual contexts, many parents prefer to rear their children in the dominant language rather than in their mother tongue. This phenomenon is widespread among native speakers of Kalhuri dialect of the Kurdish language in the multilingual context of Iran, too. Nevertheless, some studies have evidenced the privilege of bilinguals in learning an additional language though some others ...

Objective: Although the emotion authentic pride has been posited to promote achievement, it remains unclear precisely how this works. Here, we tested whether authentic pride promotes adaptive downstream achievement outcomes by motivating individuals to engage in appropriate behavioral responses to success and failure. Method: In two longitudinal studies (total n = 1132), we measured pride emoti...

BACKGROUND Achievement goal theory helps us understand what motivates students to participate in educational activities. However, measuring achievement goals in a precise manner is problematic. Elliot and McGregor's Achievement Goal Questionnaire (AGQ) and Elliot and Murayama's revised Achievement Goal Questionnaire (AGQ-R) are widely used to assess students' achievement goals. Both instruments...

Although the emotion authentic pride has been posited to promote achievement, it remains unclear precisely how this works. Here, we tested whether authentic pride promotes adaptive downstream achievement outcomes by motivating individuals to engage in appropriate behavioral responses to success and failure. In two longitudinal studies (N = 1,132), we measured pride emotional responses to a prio...