Reading achievement scores for adolescents with disabilities are markedly lower than the scores of adolescents without disabilities. For example, 62% of students with disabilities read below the basic level on the NAEP Reading assessment, compared to 19% of their nondisabled peers. This achievement gap has been a continuing challenge for more than 35 years. In this article, we report on the pro...

Students’ achievement task values, goal orientations, and interest are motivation-related constructswhich concern students’ purposes and reasons for doing achievement activities. The authors review the extant research on these constructs and describe and comparemany of the most frequently used measures of these constructs. They also discuss their development during childhood and adolescence. Th...

This study was conducted to explore the relationship between emotional intelligence and creative thinking with academic achievement .This descriptive correlation study was performed on 156 male and female students of Torbat-e-Heydarieh who were selected by census method during 2012-2013. Data was collected using Bradberry Greaves' questionnaire of emotional intelligence and Abedi's questionnair...

Over the past 25 years, achievement goal theory has emerged as one of the most prominent theories of achievement motivation. This chapter uses an achievement goal framework to examine the influence of classroom and school environments on students' academic motivation and achievement. Considerable evidence suggests that elementary and secondary students show the most positive motivation and lear...

This study analyzed the relationships among Cattellian personality factors, scholastic aptitudes, study habits, and academic achievement. A total of 887 volunteer students from primary education (453 males and 434 females), enrolled in 29 public schools, participated in this research. It was found that the scholastic aptitudes were the most predictive variables of achievement, while the persona...

Migrant Youths’ Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive later and for those who do not spe...

Distance learning, where instruction is given to students despite wide separations of students and teachers, is increasingly popular. Videoconferencing, which is examined in this study, is a distance learning mode of featuring real-time interaction of students and teachers and provides sequence, realtime, vision, and actual interaction. This study focuses on learning achievement compared to tha...

academic failure of students is one of the basic problems in higher education centers in iran that, not only causes to waste time and current charges in educational centers, but also leads to psychical, mental, familial and social problems for students. therefore, this study has been done in order to determine the value of academic success of students of zahedan medical university and its effec...

Reading comprehension growth trajectories from third to seventh grade were estimated for 99,919 students on a state reading comprehension assessment. We examined whether differences between students in general education (GE) and groups of students identified as exceptional learners were best characterized as stable, widening, or narrowing. The groups included students with disabilities (SWD) fr...