Literature has already confirmed that student engagement as an external or multidimensional construct may contribute to the academic success of college students. However, very few studies have tried to examine the contributions the more "internal forms of engagement" (cognitive and affective) might make in this regard, and how the engagement patterns may change over the academic years. To fill ...

Introduction: Several factors affect the academic performance ofcollege students and parenting style is one significant factor. Thecurrent study has been done with the purpose of investigating therelationship between parenting styles, academic achievement andcareer path of students at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.Methods: This is a correlation study carried out at Shiraz Universityof M...

aims: nowadays, the widespread use of new technologies and the need for more education and expense, force the educational and economical centers to use the new educational approaches. one of these approaches is e-learning. knowledge management seeks to increase the information processing capacity through innovation and creative power of human beings. this paper aimed to investigate the effect o...

The identification of influence factors on students’ success rate is of high interest. Especially knowledge about factors, which can be determined before the start of a student’s degree program, is important, since most dropouts occur in the very first semesters. In this paper we show, how the data mining technique of subgroup discovery can be utilized to identify such influence factors on the ...

background: academic success depends on curriculum planning and goals- setting, choosing suitable teaching methods, considering students' learning style and the teacher and the manner in which material is presented and effective time management. learning style is the processing of information and comprehension. if teachers present contents in a style that matches a student’s preferred learning ...

Computer science faculty members cite procrastination as one of the key causes of poor student performance in programming projects. In contrast, students cite conflicting demands for time. This study uses a tool-driven process of automated compilation and testing of student programs to collect student-project data. Data include when, for how long, how often, and with what magnitude of effort an...

High failure rates in introductory college science courses, including anatomy and physiology, are common at institutions across the country, and determining the specific factors that contribute to this problem is challenging. To identify students at risk for failure in introductory physiology courses at our open-enrollment institution, an online pilot survey was administered to 200 biology stud...

The notion that high levels of psychopathic trait leads to career success in the business sector has become a popular point of theorising in recent years, with research providing support for the alleged overrepresentation of psychopathy in the financial sector, and the existence of a relationship between psychopathy and professional success. A cross-sectional design was employed to compare psyc...

Higher education institutions deliver web-based learning with varied success. The success rate of distributed online courses remains low. Factors such as ineffective course facilitation and insufficient communication contribute to the unfulfilled promises of web-based learning. Students consequently feel unmotivated. Instructor control and in the courseroom further isolates students, whereas su...