This study explored the role of decision-making orientation and post-decision thinking in one’s satisfaction with their choice of college major, as well as their motivation for tasks related to their major, perceptions of competence in major coursework, and their academic performance. Three hundred and seventy-eight college students in their junior or senior year completed a survey assessing th...

This study examines the relationship between psychosocial and study skill factors (PSFs) and college outcomes by meta-analyzing 109 studies. On the basis of educational persistence and motivational theory models, the PSFs were categorized into 9 broad constructs: achievement motivation, academic goals, institutional commitment, perceived social support, social involvement, academic self-efficac...

This article describes the development and validation of a biographical data (biodata) measure and situational judgment inventory (SJI) as useful predictors of broadly defined college student performance outcomes. These measures provided incremental validity when considered in combination with standardized college-entrance tests (i.e., SAT/ACT) and a measure of Big Five personality constructs. ...

background: final exam is one of evaluation methods of students. we can utilize indexes such as difficulty index and discrimination index in order to analyze each test questions or to determine questions taxonomy. however, these methods have inter- testing look and do not consider the relationship between various tests results. inter correlation between final exam score and the average indirect...

Introduction Since nutrition, especially in childhood and adolescence is an important effect on intelligence and learning, so that malnutrition delayed to later periods of life, so that these people during the course of studies, will have many problems, this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of nutrition on student learning. Materials and Methods This study was a cross-sectional study ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of risk for sleep disorders among college students by gender and age, and their associations with grade point average (GPA). PARTICIPANTS Participants were 1,845 college students at a large, southeastern public university. METHODS A validated sleep disorder questionnaire surveyed sleep data during the 2007-2008 academic year. Students' GPAs were obtained ...

Studies revealed that college readiness promotes success and higher education student learning outcomes. This study opted to 1) analyze the total effect conditional of on by university generations departments; 2) differences in probability across departments generations; 3) describe quality terms effects probabilities success. The is an ex post facto research. Ethiopian 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation...

<span lang="EN-US">This study exploited random roommate assignments in a small Chinese college to estimate the causal effects of roommates’ scores on national College Entrance Test (CET) first-year students’ Grade Point Average (GPA). Analyzing data an entire cohort enrolled students, we found that level aggregation, for both peer-ability measure and one’s own academic-outcome measure, ma...

Background and objective Sleep hygiene are behaviours that believed to promote improved quantity quality of sleep, measured through the use sleep index. Students who achieve their needs more academically successful, as reflected by GPA. This study aims identify analyze correlation with grade point average value. Methods used an observational research design cross-sectional data collection metho...