abstract  this paper  aims at investigating the metacognitive knowledge of solving problem among primary school students with high and low school achievement. two other variables of the students’ grade and sex were also accounted for. the participants were 232 boy and girl students from forth and fifth grades which were randomly selected and divided into two groups of high  and low achievers . ...

There is vigorous debate regarding the possibility that ADHD is overdiagnosed in boys. We investigated the impact of the gender stereotype depicting boys as inattentive and impulsive on neuropsychological assessment (observation of psychology students and child's cognitive performance). In experiment 1, after the stereotype was activated, psychology students rated a "boy," a "girl," or a "child...

Purpose: to clear up effectiveness of learning-education process for counteraction of students’ harmful passion to computer games’ ubiquity. Material: 1st – 3rd year students (main health group) were the objects of the research. In total they were 952 boys and 523 girls. In 1st year students’ academic groups testing was carried out ant the beginning of academic year (October); in academic group...

the aim of present research was to investigate psychometric properties (reliability ,validity and factor analysis) of children depression inventory (kovacs,1981) in boy and girl students of junior high schools in ahvaz. 399 boy and girl students were randomly selected by multi-stage sampling. the results of factor analysis extracted six factors. among those, the greatest proportion of variance ...

The number of underrepresented minorities (URMs; black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander) among US medical school faculty is markedly low when compared with their respective percent representation of the US population. Women URMs are doubly underrepresented, particularly as the academic rank advances from the ins...

When I first developed an Addiction course for the Honors College at UMass-Boston in 2006, it focused exclusively on the acute and long-term effects of psychoactive substances on the brain. However, I soon realized that a strictly biological perspective failed to capture how this complex disorder affected the whole person. Students had no insight into addicts' thoughts, feelings, behaviors or h...

this study aimed at the frequency and type of using cell-phone by high school students. the research method used was a descriptive-survey one. the statistical society included all the high school students in mazandran in 2010-11 academic year. the sample was chosen through multi-stage stratified random sampling method and 383 subjects were selected based on kerjecie and morgan's table. a r...