The link between athleticism and academic performance has always been an area where educators are keen to investigate. Knowing whether students benefit from the impact of sports involvement is a huge advantage in engaging learners from a variety of backgrounds. In doing a recent literature review I have found that students who are involved in sports benefit in a variety of ways, not only academ...

How Long Do Teacher Effects Persist? Previous findings from experimental and non-experimental studies have demonstrated that teachers differ in their effectiveness. In addition, evidence from non-experimental studies has indicated that teacher effects can last up to five years. This study used high-quality data from a four-year randomized experiment in which teachers and students were randomly ...

We develop and estimate an equilibrium model of ability tracking. In the model, a school chooses how to allocate students into tracks based on their ability and chooses track-specific inputs. Parents choose parental effort in response. We estimate the model using data from the ECLS-K. We use the estimated model to first examine the effects of disallowing tracking on school and parental inputs a...

Tutors in a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) curriculum are thought to play active roles in guiding students to develop frameworks for use in the construction of knowledge. This implies that both subject-matter expertise and the ability of tutors to facilitate the learning process must be important in helping students learn. This study examines the behavioural effects of tutors in terms of subject-...

INTRODUCTION The lifestyle behaviours of early adolescents, including diet, physical activity, sleep, and screen usage, are well established contributors to health. These behaviours have also been shown to be associated with academic achievement. Poor academic achievement can additionally contribute to poorer health over the lifespan. This study aims to characterize the associations between hea...

Academic fraud is an act committed by students to get maximum results committing bad and prohibited acts such as cheating, discussing with friends during exams or other ways. The problems formulated in this study are: 1) does campus culture influence fraudulent academic behavior?; Does the use of information technology 3) achievement behavior? This type quantitative research ex post facto model...

The purpose of this research is to study the relationship between self- esteem, creativity, and the academic achievement among high school students (adolescences). The statistical sample is 8o high school students. Two questionnaires were used: Self- esteem and Creativity. Cooper Smith self-esteem Questionnaire and Torston. Milenjer creativity Questionnaire(CREE). The results show there is not ...