Article history: Received 6 October 2015 Received in revised form 14 January 2016 Accepted 18 January 2016 Available online 5 February 2016 Achieving a university degree is a demanding long-termgoal, and students often showvarying levels of academic achievement despite similar intellectual abilities. In order to help students, researchers thereby need to understand the origins of these individu...

This meta-analysis extends a previous review of the achievement effects of comprehensive school reform (CSR) programs (Borman, Hewes, Overman, & Brown, 2003). That meta-analysis observed significant effects of well endowed and well-researched programs, but it did not account for race/ethnicity. This article synthesizes 34 cohort or quasi-experimental outcomes of studies that incorporated the po...

A hypothetical model was formulated to explore factors that influenced academic and clinical achievement for undergraduate nursing students. Sixteen latent variables were considered including the students’ background, gender, type of first language, age, their previous successes with their undergraduate nursing studies and status given for previous studies. The academic and clinical achievement...

Shrinking achievement gaps is very important in educational and social progress. The TIMSS provides information on the achievement gaps among different countries in mathematics and science. For Taiwan, Based on the result of TIMSS 2003, there was an excellent average performance in Taiwan. However, the proportion of low achievers was high and the overall students’ learning interest and self-eff...

Bulgarian University business students compared to Russian University Business students had statistically significantly higher need for both change and lower impulsivity. This is discussed in view of previously presented findings of significantly higher Bulgarian need for achievement and dominance. The findings herein support the suggestion that the Bulgarian group will have a greater propensit...

The achievement of nutrition security at the household level involves adequacy of food supply at the national level and equitable distribution of food among the population in accordance with their physiological needs. The emergence of globalization and market liberalization and the increasing power of some transnational corporations that are advocating pharmaceutical shortcuts have raised conce...

BACKGROUND The Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) incentivises general practices in England to provide proactive care for people with serious mental illness (SMI) including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other psychoses. Better proactive primary care may reduce the risk of psychiatric admissions to hospital, but this has never been tested empirically. METHODS The QOF data set included ...

On the basis of previous work by various investigators (2, 3, 5, 6), the present study was designed to test the following hypotheses about firstborns: (a) They will score higher on the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS) need for Affiliation scales (6), and need for Achievement scales (5) than other birth-order groups. (b) They will score higher on the College Entrance Exan1ination Boar...

Research on healthy behaviour such as physical activity and healthy nutrition and their combination is lacking among university students in Arab countries. The current survey assessed healthy nutrition, and moderate/vigorous physical activity (PA) of 6266 students in Egypt, Libya, and Palestine. We computed a nutrition guideline achievement index using WHO recommendation, as well as the achieve...