This research paper is an attempt to understandcommitment and achievement which are very important in predicting individual group success any endeavor. Research has shown that commitment invariably a major impact on behavioral outcomes connected task performance. Task performance leads crucial personality factorslike self-esteem, self-concept, emotional intelligence other constructs. Environmen...

background and aim: academic evaluation is one of the strategies applied for the enhancement of teaching conditions. student-based evaluation is one of the most common kinds of evaluation. the current study is aimed at the identification of important criteria of academic evaluation from the viewpoint of medical school students.   materials and methods: this is a descriptive, cross-sectional stu...

This paper investigates the motivation and effort level decisions of accounting students in the Russian Federation. Using a within-persons decision modeling approach, the valence model and force model of Vroom's (1964) expectancy theory were found to accurately predict Russian accounting students' perceptions of the attractiveness of academic success and their willingness to exert the effort ne...

Despite research in other allied health professions and medicine, the influence of gender on student performance in respiratory therapy (RT) academic programs and on the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) examinations is unknown. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the impact of gender on student academic performance from admission to graduation and to determine whether...

Recent research has revealed that learning behavior is associated with academic achievement at the college level, but the impact of specific learning strategies on academic success as well as gender differences therein are still not clear. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate gender differences in the incremental contribution of learning strategies over general cognitive ability ...

This paper estimates peer effects on student achievement using a panel data set obtained from a middle school in China. Two unique features of the organization of Chinese middle schools (Grades 7 to 9) and the panel data allow us to identify peer effects at classroom level; in particular, we are able to overcome difficulties that have hindered the separation of peer effects from omitted individ...

CONTEXT There is considerable interest in the attributes other than cognitive ability that medical students need in order to be professionally successful, with a particular focus on empathy and emotional intelligence (EI). Selection considerations have also motivated interest in such attributes as predictors of academic success. There are reports of declines in empathy in US medical students, b...