Four experiments tested the conventional wisdom in experimental psychology that participants who complete laboratory tasks systematically differ in their cognitive abilities, motivational levels, and personality characteristics as a function of the time at which they participate during an academic term. Across 4 experiments with over 2,900 participants from 2 different universities with 2 diffe...

The aim of the study was to investigate the relations between the background information of the graduates of Institute of Business and Information Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, and their academic performance in terms of their graduation CGPA. The outcome of the analyses revealed that CGPA of the graduates is affected by session, previous academic record, and gender of ...

Document servers complying to the standards of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) are rich, yet seldom exploited source of textual primary data for research fields in text mining, natural language processing or computational linguistics. We present a bilingual (English and German) text corpus consisting of bibliographic OAI records and the associated full texts. A particular added value is that...

Previous research has suggested that parents' aspirations for their children's academic attainment can have a positive influence on children's actual academic performance. Possible negative effects of parental overaspiration, however, have found little attention in the psychological literature. Employing a dual-change score model with longitudinal data from a representative sample of German sch...

Academic publication is a key indicator for measuring scholars’ scientific productivity and has a crucial impact on their future career. Previous work has identified the positive association between the number of collaborators and academic productivity, which motivates the problem of tracing and predicting potential collaborators for junior scholars. Nevertheless, the insufficient publication r...

Previous studies have found that in East Asian Confucian societies, hardworking students are often trapped in a dilemma of enjoying a positive moral image while suffering from emotional distress due to academic failure. This study intends to further explore whether the cultural-specific belief in self-exertion acts as a psychological mechanism to lessen these students' negative emotions. A grou...

In this study we examined the college choice process for Black males attending community colleges. Using data from the Educational Longitudinal Study, findings indicated that Black males who attend community colleges select their institutions based upon having a degree in their chosen field, the coursework/curriculum, job placement record, availability of financial aid, and academic reputation....

Contemporary business information systems record business events in event logs. Process mining techniques permit to explore these logs to understand and analyze processes. Although, there are a number of case studies demonstrating usefulness of process mining techniques in real-life case studies, process conformance check techniques miss such practical evaluation. Also the commercial tools have...

This article is intended to contribute to the small but growing literature on university students in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canada--in this case, to add to our knowledge about medical students at the University of Toronto between 1910 and 1940. Aside from crude estimates of total numbers, we know very little about medical students before the early twentieth century because the kinds ...

14 The fossil record is a rich source of information about biological diversity in the past. However, the fossil 15 record is not only incomplete but has inherent biases due to geological, physical, chemical and biological 16 factors. Our knowledge of past life is also biased because of differences in academic and amateur interests 17 and sampling efforts. As a result, not all individuals or sp...