BACKGROUND The benefits of physical fitness are widely acknowledged and extend across many domains of wellness. The association between fitness and academic achievement, however, remains to be clarified, especially in young children. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between fitness and academic achievement in elementary school children. METHODS Data were co...

The aim of the study is to analyse the achievement levels of undergraduate students attending to the faculty of education based on the type of the high schools they graduated from and their order of preferrence at the University Placement Examination. The sample of the study includes a total of 1957 undergraduate students attending to several departments within the faculty of education such as ...

Culture is an inseparable part of a language. In other words, mastering a language and being able to communicate through it inevitably entails integrating with the culture of the speakers of that language which is the reflection of people's identity. The aim of the present study was designing a model of Iranian cultural identity. Initially, to select a homogeneous sample of learners at the adva...

The aim of the study was designing a model of Iranian cultural identity. The initial pool of theparticipants was 300 language learners at the advanced level. To make sure about the true levelof the participants, they needed to take TOEFL. Based on the descriptive statistics includingmean and standard deviations, those participants whose scores lay within the range of +/- onestandard deviation w...

In this study, we examined the relation of observed classroom practices to language and literacy achievement moderation for students from pre-K sixth grade. A total 136 studies (N = 107,882 participants) met inclusion criteria, which 108 were included meta-analysis other 28 narratively synthesized. The average zero-order (r .12) partial correlations p .04) statistically significant but weak in ...

BACKGROUND In addition to the benefits on physical and mental health, cardiorespiratory fitness has shown to have positive effects on cognition. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between cardiorespiratory fitness and body weight status on academic performance among seventh-grade students. METHODS Participants included 1531 grade 7 students (787 male, 744 female), ranging in age...