This study examined the effects of gender; time spent on internet browsing, participation in sports activities and medium of instructions on mathematics achievement of class IX students of South-East Bihar. The study consists of 975 male and 969 female students of thirty-six schools of South-East Bihar. The mathematics achievement test and personal background assessment questionnaire were used ...

the academic achievement of students has been a focus of social research for decades. yet little attention has been paid to social capital and its importance as a university context factor for academic success. we examine whether social capital has effects on students’ academic achievement. the population of this study consisted of all senior agricultural students of razi university at iran (n=...

The linkages of achievement-related boredom with students’ appraisals and performance outcomes were examined in a series of 5 exploratory, cross-sectional, and predictive investigations. Studies 1 and 2 assessed students’ boredom in a single achievement episode (i.e., state achievement boredom); Studies 3, 4, and 5 focused on their habitual boredom (i.e., trait achievement boredom). Samples con...

Identification of Peer Effects with Missing Peer Data: Evidence from Project STAR This paper studies peer effects on student achievement among first graders randomly assigned to classrooms in Tennessee’s Project STAR. The analysis uses previously unexploited pre-assignment achievement measures available for 60 percent of students. Data are not missing at random, making identification challengin...

This study examines the policy of teaching science and mathematics in English in the Malaysian educational system by focusing on the attitudes and achievement orientations of secondary school students towards the learning of these two subjects. Attitudes and achievement are two important outcomes of learning that will determine the effectiveness of an education policy. This study is based on a ...

Over the past decades, researchers have explored the relationship among home resources, school environment, and students’ mathematics achievement in a large amount of studies (Coleman, 1966; Greenwald, Hedges & Laine, 1996; Hampden-Thompson & Johnston, 2006; Mullis et al., 2012). Many of them suggested that rich home resources for learning were related to higher average academic achievement. So...

Educational psychologists find that prior knowledge influences new learning. We examined whether course achievement for introductory psychology students is facilitated or impaired by their prior knowledge of psychology. We administered a pretest exam to 422 students early in the semester and gathered subsequent exam scores and other measures of student achievement. Students generally performed ...

Some students perform extremely excellent in some courses whiles they performance poorly in computer programming couse in most of the Ghanaian higher institutions. The question is why some students perform excellent in some courses but these same students perform poorly in computer programming course. In looking for ways of addressing this question the study seek to investigate whether some stu...

BACKGROUND Research into teacher expectations has shown that these have an effect on student achievement. Some researchers have explored the impact of various student characteristics on teachers' expectations. One attribute of interest is ethnicity. AIMS This study aimed to explore differences in teachers' expectations and judgments of student reading performance for Maori, Pacific Island, As...

This study examined the relationship between achievement and social goals, and explored how both goals affect students' level of informed self-determination in Physical Education. Participants were 395 high school students. Three scales were used to assess achievement, social goals, and motivation. Several hierarchical regression analyses revealed that mastery-approach goals were the greatest c...