Abstract We juxtapose (positive and negative) compositional effects of school-average achievement socioeconomic status (SES) on students’ academic self-concept (ASC), final high-school grade-point-average (GPA), long-term outcomes at age 26 (educational attainment educational occupational expectations). used doubly-latent multilevel models with a large, nationally representative longitudinal sa...

AIM The purpose of this study is to evaluate the association of the pre-internship Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in final year medical students with comprehensive written examinations. SUBJECTS AND MATERIAL: All medical students of October 2004 admission who took part in the October 2010 National Comprehensive Pre-internship Examination (NCPE) and pre-internship OSCE were inc...

CONTEXT Today's formal medical school admission systems often include only cognitively oriented tests, although most medical school curricula emphasise both cognitive and non-cognitive factors. Situational judgement tests (SJTs) may represent an innovative approach to the formal measurement of interpersonal skills in large groups of candidates in medical school admission processes. This study e...

Students use different modes of transport to go college. While many transportation programs exist at universities and experts find these have a positive impact, no studies investigated the impact such on absenteeism academic performance college students. The main purpose this study is investigate provided program engineering Different types data were collected from sample students, including at...

background and purpose: the students studying at the universities of medical sciences deal with numerous stressors during their educational experiences in the healthcare settings, which lead to poor mental health status and low performance. these stressors include the psychological pressures of the environment, the hospital settings, diseases, patients, heavy course load and training, economic ...

Background: Better understanding of factors associated with medical school performance is necessary to improve admission processes and to help students succeed in their career. This study follows a group of Iranian med students during their first 2.5 years of medical education, to evaluate their academic success in accordance with their demographic, cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics...

The objective of this research was to determine if a computerized simulated dental exercise predicts students' subsequent performance in preclinical technique courses. Twenty-nine first-year dental students voluntarily participated in the investigation prior to their first experience with a dental handpiece. These students prepared an ideal Class I amalgam on an ivorine mandibular first molar t...

This paper examines a natural experiment in which students at a large state university were randomly assigned roommates through a lottery system. We find that on average, males assigned to roommates who reported drinking in the year prior to entering college had one quarter-point lower GPA than those assigned to non-drinking roommates. The 10 percentile of their college GPA is half a point lowe...

despite the fact that the contents of items on the raven's progressive matrices have little similarity to the content of subjects taught in school, the correlation coefficients between iq scores and achievement test scores have been estimated to be about 0.5. six groups of 20 students were randomly selected from the first, second, and third grades of urban and rural guidance schools in sha...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper was to assess factors that predict students' performance in the Medical Licensing Examination of Thailand (MLET) Step1 examination. The hypothesis was that demographic factors and academic records would predict the students' performance in the Step1 Licensing Examination. MATERIALS AND METHODS A logistic regression analysis of demographic factors (age, sex a...