Increasing Student Achievement by Improving the Psycho-Emotional Atmosphere of the Geography Class M. Naaderi H. Abdollaahzaadeh, Ph.D. The spread of new technologies has tremendously changed classroom atmospheres in the developed countries, and as a result, learning packages are utilized ever more frequently in their schools. In Iran the use of such packages is picking up spe...

Silvia and colleagues (Silvia, Kaufman, & Pretz, 2009) highlighted the advantages of latent class analysis when studying creative achievement. The current study replicates and expands Silvia and colleagues’ (2009) findings on creative achievement in a sample of 656 students, of which 223 were also assessed on creative ability and ideation, as well as a broad range of personality traits. A laten...

M i s h e l & R o t h s t e i n , e d i t o r s In The Class Size Debate, two eminent economists debate the merits of smaller class sizes and the research methods used to measure the efficacy of this education reform measure. Alan Krueger (Princeton University) maintains that smaller class sizes can improve students’ performance and future earnings prospects. He challenges Prof. Hanushek’s wi...

Educational reformers increasingly seek to manipulate policies regarding assessment, curriculum, and professional development in order to improve instruction. They assume that manipulating these elements of instructional policy will change teachers' practice, which will then improve student performance. We formalize these ideas into a rudimentary model of the relations among instructional polic...

Tie 0; eAcaihevical Soc cit-: DaV.. ('nAIr.Ss L. P1 R-OsNS . -----------------------------------CONTRIBUTION OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN1 THE retir ement of Miss Thomas from the presidency of Brvn MawrCollege, whose destinies she has guided since its formal opening thirty-seven vears ago-for nine years as dean in assoeiation with President Rhoads, and for twenty-eight ...

This review intends to provide an overview of historical and recent achievements in studies of microbial degradation of natural and synthetic rubber. The main scientific focus is on the key enzymes latex-clearing protein (Lcp) from the Gram-positive Streptomyces sp. strain K30 and rubber oxygenase A (RoxA) from the Gram-negative Xanthomonas sp. strain 35Y, which has been hitherto the only known...

How do school resources affect students’ academic achievement? This chapter provides a survey of economists’ work on the effect of expenditure and class size on student achievement using different international student achievement tests, with a particular focus on the use of quasi-experimental research methods to address challenges of the identification of causal effects. Overall, the internati...